Re: OT- Buying new computer, which way to go?

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"Hunt" <noone@xxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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How do I get two monitors hooked up. Is that aspecial graphics card? Can I
use a CRT and LCD together on the same card?

A vid card allowing dual-head option will allow you to hook up two monitors.
In Windows, you set the Desktop to "expand" (sorry, but I forget the actual
syntax here) across both monitors. With some cards, you set this up first with
the card's software, then with Windows. I would assume that it is similar, but
probably easier with MAC, as they have had dual-head displays much longer.

I have a Matrox G-450 dual-head, nVidia Quadra 4500 dual-head and an nVidia
9600 dual-head and they are all pretty much the same with WinME, W2k and
WinXP-Pro. On all of mine, its vid-card setup, Monitor>Dual tab, then stretch
the desktop in the various Win OS's. There are some considerations on matching
monitors or matching rez settings. On my Matrox with W2K, I can only run one
monitor at 1280x1024 (actually I could bump this one up a notch, but choose
not to), but the other monitor will only go to 1024x986 (?). Both nVidia cards
allow 1280x1024 on both monitors, but they are newer and also have 128MB and
512 MB VRAM. On the Parhalia line of Matrox monitors you can run analog,
analog, analog digital, plus several forms of TV video in a triple-head setup
if you do video editing.

Hunt

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