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Thread ID: 30320 2003-02-16 00:43:00 2 screens off one video card Mike (15) Press F1
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121612 2003-02-17 08:22:00 BTW - Check into Trademe, or use T&E or something similar, it'll cost you $20-$50 for a second card, depending on what type you get :D Chilling_Silence (9)
121613 2003-02-17 09:13:00 we run two screens at work--it is like having one screen spread across two--eg both windows are in effect at half screen so allowing one each side. Can be one program or two or more--as on one screen. we use dual head gf2 and gf4 cards--you need an adaptor for the second tv out head to run vga. Matrox also have cards like this. Matrox 400 will do it
I saw an AGP dual head GF2 card on trademe the other day for $20. Although care would need to be taken to see that it is compatible with AGP slot---2x or 4x.--although I'm not really up on this side of it.
there is a program called Twin-View which supports two screens and I think you can adjust the screens individually
dum dugie (432)
121614 2003-02-17 10:02:00 There is a guy who writes for the English PCPro (John Honeyball I think) who has been running three monitors off one box. He wrote about it in the Nov or Dec issue. mikebartnz (21)
121615 2003-02-17 22:24:00 Ive run 5 all on S3 Trio or Virge cards, on a P75 with 64MB RAM on 98SE!

Ran fine too!
Chilling_Silence (9)
121616 2003-02-18 05:10:00 hey Mike,

Surely what you REALLY need is one of these Multi-View System (www.massmultiples.com)

Babe.
Babe Ruth (416)
121617 2003-02-18 05:33:00 > Surely what you REALLY need is one of these
> Multi-View System (www.massmultiples.com
> quad.htm)

:O:D Those are soooo neat!

wonders if one of those will cause a
budget blowout for my new system?
Jen C (20)
121618 2003-02-19 00:27:00 I found out how they're running two screens seperately (different views, different resolutions) at work... it's not a VGA output, it's DVI :D

Mike.
Mike (15)
121619 2003-02-19 02:14:00 That's a s"slightly" different technology. :D

The Feb issue of Ausatrlian PC has reviews of various video cards.
There's one PCI card with 2 VGA outputs fed from a GeForce4 chip. It;'s described as too slow to be useful (that is, for games :D), except for two running monitors. That's only $299. Theres another, with 2 DVI outputs. Why stop at 2 when that one will handle three? At only $A781.

The reviewers weren't impressed much by any of them; the most impressive part is the prices .
Graham L (2)
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