Dual-Monitor Set up

Kbeg3

I'm interested in setting up two monitors. How do I go about this?
Do I need another graphics card? Help please!!

al_

There are a few ways to do it,
Easiest is to check and see if your current video card has dual outputs, if it doesnt you need to replace it with one that does. If you want decent performance and good resolutions on both screens you will need something with video ram built-in, the more the merrier.
After that its easy enough, its a simple set up within the windows display properties panel, you just need to choose to extend your desktop onto the 2nd monitor.
Al

DotOrg

al_ wrote: »

There are a few ways to do it,
Easiest is to check and see if your current video card has dual outputs, if it doesnt you need to replace it with one that does.

and even that's not entirely necessary. you can just add a second graphics card if you have a spare slot inside your computer.


On my computer, one graphics card is built into the motherboard, so i just took a stanard card out of an old pc, popped it into my computer and that was ll there was to it

al_

Ahh good point, I never even consider onboard graphics.
Al