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Does anyone use dual monitors on their computer?

What do you do with the two? I was going to hook two cuz i have two LCD monitors but there is no way to use the onboard VGA and a PCI-Express card at the same time is there?
rocket9244: Um obviously that was part of my question you idiot.
Im using xp right now cuz im on a different computer, but im usually using vista. Is there a way to us the onboarad graphics and a pci-e card at the same time?

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8 Responses to “Does anyone use dual monitors on their computer?”

  1. *Dear*Prudence* on September 2nd, 2010 at 5:57 pm

    haha…nope

  2. my friend does but only one will remain on when you play a game

  3. no i don’t and i don’t recommend it

  4. whats the point ??

  5. If you’re using XP or Vista they both support dual displays.
    When you look at Display Properties you have 2 screens and you can drag and drop them into the order you want. It can be handy if you’re comparing 2 websites to be able to view them simultaneously. You can drag and drop from one screen into the other so for instance you have a spreadsheet and want to take bits of it for a Word document, have an application on each screen and you dont need to switch applications just select, drag and drop.

  6. I’ve used 2 monitors before for my work.

    But now I use my LCD widescreen and then my S-Video plug from my graphics card to my television set.

    So, I use a monitor and a television!

  7. I also use two screens, a 17" monitor, and my 27" TV. (also using the Svideo plug.)

    The answer to your question depends on the motherboard. I’ve used motherboards that had onboard video and AGP slots. Some you had to disable the onboard just to get the AGP port to work. Others didn’t card and you could use both. Seeing as PCIe video cards support two screens anyways, just use that and ignore the onboard video

  8. At work I have 3.

    Two off a dual head card
    One of an old PCI card.

    Get a dual head video card, they are very common and almost, if not exactly, the same price as single head cards.

    Then you can ignore the on board video, which is probably some cheap, poor acceleration chipset anyway.

    I really like having a lot of windows open at once. Having multiple monitors increases my desktop space. For example I can have a couple of reference documents open in full screen view, while I write an E-mail. Having to swap windows around on a single monitor is a pain and a disruption.

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