two monitors gaming pc?

Question

i would like two monitors, from what i understand of SLI its two grafix cards working on the same screen, my friend says you can run two monitors off of ONE grafix card, i would like one screen to be using the GeForce 8800 Ultra (gaming screen), and the other to be GeForce 8500 GT. can i do this. please help

i am planing to run the game in the first screen with the best grafix card and the second will just be for IE 7, for firefox and AOL

i am not going to be playing the game on two screens, the game will be on one screen and some thing like IE7 will be on the other

Answer 1

Yes you can if you can fit both cards into your motherboard. Check to see how many PCI-e slots it has.


I you are going to run a game across multiple screens then two is a bad number because the center of your vision will be right at the join between the two screens. Unless you can put different views on different screens. Some games are starting to do this.

Answer 2

You can run a DVI setup and spread the image over two screens. Better to have a really skinny edge on your monitor for this. From memory it iss called an extended desktop. Have a look in the video card settings.

Answer 3

You would probably strain your processor by sending twice the video out to 2 different cards....

At this very moment I am on 2 monitors with 1 video card...one vga and one dvi.....but you cannot play games on both monitors, i havent seen a game made that way

as with 2 video cards.......you can buy double video PCI-Express cards........2 video cards in one, but your motherboard must be able to support PCI-E

Answer 4

it truly is only no longer conceivable. a great style of diverse bits (from the way mouse drivers hook up with the driving force chain to the way DirectX classes 'seize' the own pc to the way the scheduler distinguishes a foreground job) are only no longer designed to try this. Sorry.