. His only specific requirement is the system having two monitors. My question is, what sort of a video card does a setup like this need? Will just about anything with 2 display ports (say, radeon HD3650) be enough? He won't be playing games or anything, just browsing and using MS Office and such. The system will run 32 bit Vista.Using multiple monitors, what sort of video card needed?
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Using multiple monitors, what sort of video card needed?
My father has decided to get a new work computer, and outsourced this thing to me . His only specific requirement is the system having two monitors. My question is, what sort of a video card does a setup like this need? Will just about anything with 2 display ports (say, radeon HD3650) be enough? He won't be playing games or anything, just browsing and using MS Office and such. The system will run 32 bit Vista.
. His only specific requirement is the system having two monitors. My question is, what sort of a video card does a setup like this need? Will just about anything with 2 display ports (say, radeon HD3650) be enough? He won't be playing games or anything, just browsing and using MS Office and such. The system will run 32 bit Vista."Death before dishonour" they say, but how much dishonour are we talking about exactly? I mean, I can handle a lot. I could fellate a smurf if the alternative was death.
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Re: Using multiple monitors, what sort of video card needed?
Yes. Essentially all video cards have multi-monitor support these days. The amount of frame buffer required for even two displays is trivial compared to the amount of video memory even budget cards have.Karza wrote:Will just about anything with 2 display ports (say, radeon HD3650) be enough?
Re: Using multiple monitors, what sort of video card needed?
To echo what Starglider said. Any 3d card you buy today supports duel monitors. The bigger issue is what 3d cards are supported by the computer. If your building from scratch, you can get around this issue. But in a working environment where you upgrade existing workstations or work off small cases, you have to take into account what physical size the computer can support. In addition, some specialized motherboards can only support a certain number of video cards.
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Re: Using multiple monitors, what sort of video card needed?
There are workarounds for computers that can only physically have one video output, such as Matrox's DualHead2Go and TripleHead2Go products.