Secondary Monitor

Jak

What is the requirement for installing a 2nd Monitor (i.e. Having bigger desktop)?

Is it just 1 decent Graphics card you need .. or two? The card has to be AGP doesn't it? Where does the second one plug into?

In how many ways will this ruin Xmas and cause all my games to crash?


Cheers,

JAK.

WhiteWashMan

you need two graphics cards
you need two monitors

one card can be pci.
in fact both of em can be pci afaik

you cant play games using a second monitor unless its supported

SantaHoe

Yeah, I've done it, and it rox.
WWM is absolutly correct, all you need is an additional monitor and graphics card with any combination of PCI and AGP and you're done!
So much cool $hit you can do with it...

Gyck

Get a Matrox G400, it supports 2 monitors out of the box...

Jak

Well I have a Rage 128 (AGP) ,

and a spare Matrox Millenium 2 lying about and an old 14" monitor ... so i guess as long as the Mill 2 fits it should be easy enough ...

Cheers ppl,

JAK.

TinCool

Why would u want to hook up two monitors ?

Jak

Well - aside from the fact i think it would look pretty interesting,

For a lot of research I am typing to a word document from some Hypertext page or database or whatever ... so now i dont have to flick between windows i can just look left and right.

Also i have a spare monitor and grphz card so why not?

WhiteWashMan

IS IT Y2K COMPLIANT?

SantaHoe

Aaaaahhh! Shut up!
It's all I hear all bloody day long... "Blah blah Y2K blah"

Anyway, in response to TinCool, 2 monitors are great for all sortsa' $hit, especialy building webpages where only minor adjustments need to be checked on.
It's a lot quicker to just 'zap' on to the adjacent monitor to check on what you've done.

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Hecate

we set it up in our place to use microstation. The mouse pointer jumps from screen to screen, how cool is that?

yeh a Matrox G400 is the safest bet if your doing that kind of thing.

SantaHoe

Wouldn't UT or Half-Life be great with two monitors (if it was supported?).

Wait, fu(k that!, I want THREE monitors, big 23" ones!
PWHOA!

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