One CPU, two monitors - How?

Discussion in 'Hardware' started by nihangshah, Apr 20, 2010.

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    There are some people who work with two monitors. It's so lovely to work with BIG screens! :cool:

    Anybody knows how to connect one CPU with two monitors? Do you need some special graphics card?
     
    nihangshah, Apr 20, 2010 IP
  2. shadowpope17

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    A lot of the modern graphics card support this, your card basically need 2 DVI slots and you can connect the monitors and have the same picture on both or both monitors displaying like on one big screen, (like that video showed).

    edit: Those monitos were pretty big, not sure if a lot of GPUs support that kind of resolution.
     
    shadowpope17, Apr 20, 2010 IP
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    those monitors were only thirty inches. a medium size graphics card will support them it just won't drive games on them. you need two video outputs of any type. You can have one dvi and one vga if you want. you can even have two cards, each driving one monitor.
     
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    I think that all the newer series have 2 DVI outputs for this, just check their specifications.
     
    Mentalhead, Apr 20, 2010 IP
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    I'm not really sure. I hooked to regular flat screens to my computer. Right on the side of my flat screen I a usb port. I plug the two same monitors together.
     
    blueribbons, Apr 21, 2010 IP
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    Yes you need a VGA card with 2 DVI slot , or like me 1 use a VGA card with 1 DVI slot and 1 VGA slot witch is plugin into 1 22inch LCD and my normal 17inch CRT monitor.
     
    kyon, Apr 22, 2010 IP