Implementation/use of 2 monitors

el bob · Post by **el bob** » Fri Mar 09, 2001 8:11 pm

I've been wondering about this for a long time now. I always thought that it would slow down your computer to be sending out info for two displays.

I only know about this to the point where you have two vid cards and two monitors and the init display that smaier was talking about. I can understand all that. But, do the screens show the exact same thing.

I heard that you can view two different windows? Again, wouldn't that severely slow down your system?

All and any help appreciated. Thanks.

Chris · Post by **Chris** » Fri Mar 09, 2001 8:41 pm

you can stretch your desktop over the two monitors, one window in one, a different window in the other. Works fantastic if your doing graphics or cutting code. I never notice any slow downs

nightowl · Post by **nightowl** » Sat Mar 10, 2001 2:23 am

takes the OS alot longer to boot at startup though.......

el bob · Post by **el bob** » Sat Mar 10, 2001 11:52 am

Ok, I'm going to give it a shot.

But, I don't have a spare "new" video card to add in. The video card would probably a PCI card, from a 486 or a Pentium 100.

Is it still going to be worth it?

existing
Diamond Viper V770

I have a 100MHz FSB (is my agp bus running at the same rate?) and I think the video card is coming from a 66MHz FSB (would the pci bus be the same?).

Would adding this older PCI card slow down my PCI bus?

Thanks a bunch. -el bob

nightowl · Post by **nightowl** » Sat Mar 10, 2001 2:07 pm

for it to work you need a decent vid card like a 2 meg pci one.....won't work with any isa vid cards

MIS_Jay · Post by **MIS_Jay** » Sat Mar 10, 2001 2:44 pm

Get a new nVidia dual head vid card. Like the Geforce2 Dual Head GTS or MX. Support for dual monitors with one card.

el bob · Post by **el bob** » Sat Mar 10, 2001 3:50 pm

nightowl, that is exactly what I have in the Pentium 100 computer.

Diamond Stealth 64 Video PCI 2 MB VRAM

So, if I use this one, I should be alright? If I do, all I have to do to set it up software wise is just to make sure that the original agp card is the primary video card?

Thanks. -el bob

nightowl · Post by **nightowl** » Sat Mar 10, 2001 5:41 pm

yes....make shure and goto your bios and set it to detect your agp card first

the_mp3_refuge · Post by **the_mp3_refuge** » Sat Mar 10, 2001 8:38 pm

Hey, el bob. You can set 2 vid cards on two monitors, and just use extened desktop so you can use 2 monitors, and they don't show the same thing. I just got my old Diamond Monster workin in my pc so i'm working on my site, and 3D work. And I havent noticed any slowdown in performance. Hope that helps

. Peace

el bob · Post by **el bob** » Sat Mar 10, 2001 10:06 pm

Ok, thanks for all the replies. I really do appreciate. -el bob