Dual Output video cards

Hello all,

I'll soon be upgrading my PC system and would like to put a new video card
in with dual displays. I've got an old 15" sitting around that I'd like to
use for palletes and such to get them out of the way. My problem seems to
be finding video cards that have built in support for 2 monitors. Is there
a good list out there that could help guide me or any advice that can be
offered would be much appreciated.

thanks much,

Aidan

"Aidan" <Anubis81@aol.com> wrote in
news:f18bf11a68b522a70329760d97f28f3d@news.meganet news.com:

> Hello all,
>
> I'll soon be upgrading my PC system and would like to put a new video
> card in with dual displays. I've got an old 15" sitting around that
> I'd like to use for palletes and such to get them out of the way. My
> problem seems to be finding video cards that have built in support for
> 2 monitors. Is there a good list out there that could help guide me
> or any advice that can be offered would be much appreciated.

What?

Every major vendor's medium and high range cards, and most of the low-
range, support dual head. Matrox probably has price point if you want no 3D
at all with the G550; ATI's 9500 would be better otherwise. Both give
excellent quality images and have quality drivers and support software.

> > I'll soon be upgrading my PC system and would like to put a new video
> > card in with dual displays. I've got an old 15" sitting around that
> > I'd like to use for palletes and such to get them out of the way. My
> > problem seems to be finding video cards that have built in support for
> > 2 monitors. Is there a good list out there that could help guide me
> > or any advice that can be offered would be much appreciated.

If you work on Windows XP, you can put a PCI video card with the AGP video
card and make a "dual head".

Aidan,
i use 2 monitors on 2 seperate video cards - one is agp32M and the other is
an old 8meg pci

it works well

and just for fun at one point i put a third one on - that worked well too

2 x 15" and a 17" - what a desktop
regards
chris


"Aidan" <Anubis81@aol.com> wrote in message
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> Hello all,
>
> I'll soon be upgrading my PC system and would like to put a new video card
> in with dual displays. I've got an old 15" sitting around that I'd like
to
> use for palletes and such to get them out of the way. My problem seems to
> be finding video cards that have built in support for 2 monitors. Is
there
> a good list out there that could help guide me or any advice that can be
> offered would be much appreciated.
>
> thanks much,
>
> Aidan
>
>

"jeje" <jeje_34@caramail.com> wrote in message
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>
> > > I'll soon be upgrading my PC system and would like to put a new video
> > > card in with dual displays. I've got an old 15" sitting around that
> > > I'd like to use for palletes and such to get them out of the way. My
> > > problem seems to be finding video cards that have built in support for
> > > 2 monitors. Is there a good list out there that could help guide me
> > > or any advice that can be offered would be much appreciated.
>
> If you work on Windows XP, you can put a PCI video card with the AGP video
> card and make a "dual head".

Not only with XP, any Windows will do that.
If you want two monitors just ad a cheapo used PCI video card, who cares how
bad it is since the OP just wants to park his tools and palettes on a tiny
monitor
You can ad as many PCI cards as you want.
I came across a page on the subject and the author found out that Windows
was perfectly happy running up to 32 PCI video cards.

Stephan

On Thu, 26 Jun 2003 18:31:06 GMT, "Stephan" <NoMoreSpam@Thank.you>
wrote:


>I came across a page on the subject and the author found out that Windows
>was perfectly happy running up to 32 PCI video cards.
>
A 32 monitor desktop? Now *that* would be interesting... ;-)

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Hecate
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Hecate wrote:

> A 32 monitor desktop? Now *that* would be interesting... ;-)

Four of these surrounding you and you're ready to fly
<http://www.9xmedia.com/pages-Build_a_system/X-Top_Expert---4_over_4.html>

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Regards
Madsen.

"Madsen" <nospam@madsen.tdcadsl.dk> wrote in message
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> Hecate wrote:
>
> > A 32 monitor desktop? Now *that* would be interesting... ;-)
>
> Four of these surrounding you and you're ready to fly
> <http://www.9xmedia.com/pages-Build_a_system/X-Top_Expert---4_over_4.html>
>

You bastard! You just ruined my day... I thought my triple display was so
cool until I followed your link ;-(

;-)

Stephan

Am I understanding this right???
You can just toss a second (or more) video card in
and windows is cool with that? Why then would folks
be paying $200-900 for a single card with dual monitor capabilities?
Seems silly.

-Alex

On Thu, 26 Jun 2003 18:31:06 GMT, "Stephan" <NoMoreSpam@Thank.you>
wrote:

>
>"jeje" <jeje_34@caramail.com> wrote in message
>news:bdeftp$7d7$1@s1.read.news.oleane.net...
>>
>> > > I'll soon be upgrading my PC system and would like to put a new video
>> > > card in with dual displays. I've got an old 15" sitting around that
>> > > I'd like to use for palletes and such to get them out of the way. My
>> > > problem seems to be finding video cards that have built in support for
>> > > 2 monitors. Is there a good list out there that could help guide me
>> > > or any advice that can be offered would be much appreciated.
>>
>> If you work on Windows XP, you can put a PCI video card with the AGP video
>> card and make a "dual head".
>
>Not only with XP, any Windows will do that.
>If you want two monitors just ad a cheapo used PCI video card, who cares how
>bad it is since the OP just wants to park his tools and palettes on a tiny
>monitor
>You can ad as many PCI cards as you want.
>I came across a page on the subject and the author found out that Windows
>was perfectly happy running up to 32 PCI video cards.
>
>Stephan
>

smiley <oohmyheck2@yahoo.com> wrote in
news:gsgofvs42t18tfvnk1kpblu07rn311nrl6@4ax.com:

> Am I understanding this right???
> You can just toss a second (or more) video card in
> and windows is cool with that? Why then would folks
> be paying $200-900 for a single card with dual monitor capabilities?
> Seems silly.

It would be, if you had to pay that kind of premium for dualhead. You
don't. The Radeon 9100, with dualhead plus TV out can be had for $55USD.