Grafix cards that suport two monitors

TARE

Howdy,

Can anyone give me a good reason why I'd want a grafix card to suport the running of two monitors ? It just shows the same thing as the other one right?

Also, can anyone sujests a good budget grafix card, under 100 euros like. I'm not mad in to my games these days, something that will do the job though...

savemejebus

it doesn't necessarily just show two identical images, you can have a very large desktop which is useful for certain graphic design work

gobby

cos its fun?

joePC

This is why.......

Virus_Inc

Extended/Spanned desktops are dead-handy for any kind of multimedia development - more desktop to spread tools and assests across...

In my previous job as a video production engineer the main editing rig had a desktop spanned over 3 19" flatscreens. A massively long timeline with 2/3rds of a monitor each for assets, effects & previews was brilliant... great for playing games on too

Captain Trips

5700 Pro with with dual outputs. I have it, works well, if it I had two identical monitors instead of one 19" 4 year old gateway and a decade old 14". I'm sure two 17" TFTs would look sweet.

Prisoner6409

Some Graphics cards come with a built in tv tuner. So you could possibly watch tv on one and work/play games on the other.

unkel

Originally posted by Prisoner6409
you could possibly watch tv on one and work/play games on the other.

Never thought of that - good idea

Creamy Goodness

the gfx cards that come with tv tuners don't support dual monitor i don't think

some one prove me wrong and i'll be happy though

gobby

for a spanned desktop you would probably have to get monitors where the screen surface goes all the way to the edge with little or no case around the boarder.

elexes

ati 9000 / 9600 both have duel mon display options i use the 9600 myself and find it very handy . 2x 17" mons . tho ive never used both to play a computer game ive a feeling it would be hard on resorces .

L1011

The cheapest card that I know of that supports two monitors is an original Radeon/7000. Get the Connect3D one if going for that, its cheapest and faster than the others.