What are the advantages of having dual moniters i now have the equiptment to do it but i want to know whats so good about it. Like can i see different things on each one or what?
Yep, you can extend your desktop onto it, so say... if you were instant messaging a couple of people, you couple put all the people you like on one monitor and all the people you don't like on the other.
The biggest advantage for Dual monitors is cost of desktop space. You can get a 17" and a 15" Monitor for about (or less) then the cost of a good 20" monitor but you get way more desktop space.
Next it's far more efficient to work with. Say you are doing anything like word processing or spreadsheets or databases or both. You put the main project on one screen and all your tools on the other or have 2 word/whatever documents open at the same time on 2 different screens. You no longer need to 'tab' back and forth to see the 2 projects you can work on them at the same time.
Now if you are doing graphical work it's even more functional. Have a full picture on one screen with all your tools and palets on the other no need to move things around to see different parts of the picture it's just awesome.
You can do it either with a video card with dual outs on it. Or you can do it with 2 video cards. Just keep in mind that you only have 1 AGP slot in your machine so a second video card has to be PCI.
i am having a problem with 2 graphics card the one pci is pretty old and so it the moniter and it says the graphics card is disabled and it doesnt even know the moniter is there though i made sure it was connected properly. should i jsut get one of those cords that splits the graphics card signal or try and work through this?
What happens when you go into the Systems panel and try to enable the PCI card? Hmmm if it's an older PCI card I'm wondering if there is an issue that it can't handle your current version of DirectX perhaps. That's just a longshot guess though since I think Direct X is assbackward compatible for the most part.
yeah i tried to enable it but it just went back to disabled everytime. should i jsut get one of those cords that splits the graphics card signal? does anyone know what they are called?
I'm not familiar with the cords that split the signal so I can't help you. But the way I understand things those cards will only split the signal so you have the exact same thing on each monitor. It won't do the same thing as splitting your desktop onto 2 monitors effectively doubling your space. However if there is a cord that will actually span your desktop onto 2 monitors that's very cool.
i went in to compusmart to take a look at what they had and to split the current video card the small unit was about $120 cdn so i didnt bother since i can just buy a new dual moniter video card for about $110. so problem solved but thank for you help anyways
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dule monitors are gold
Next it's far more efficient to work with. Say you are doing anything like word processing or spreadsheets or databases or both. You put the main project on one screen and all your tools on the other or have 2 word/whatever documents open at the same time on 2 different screens. You no longer need to 'tab' back and forth to see the 2 projects you can work on them at the same time.
Now if you are doing graphical work it's even more functional. Have a full picture on one screen with all your tools and palets on the other no need to move things around to see different parts of the picture it's just awesome.
You can do it either with a video card with dual outs on it. Or you can do it with 2 video cards. Just keep in mind that you only have 1 AGP slot in your machine so a second video card has to be PCI.