Branners Posted October 4, 2007 Share Posted October 4, 2007 Nearly finished with my IT questions... Im now trying to find a desktop machine that has dual screen outputs as standard, or somebody that can build one with dual screen in it. Doesnt need to be ultra powerful, just a normal office type machine that will be running Word, excel etc and in the second screen it will be running a VNC session to another machine to display whats happening on that one. So, any suggestions? JB Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JustGav Posted October 4, 2007 Share Posted October 4, 2007 Any recent machine will be fine I would have thought with a dual output card, I used an AGP based Radeon 9800SE with good results. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
marbleapple Posted October 4, 2007 Share Posted October 4, 2007 Nearly finished with my IT questions... Im now trying to find a desktop machine that has dual screen outputs as standard, or somebody that can build one with dual screen in it. Doesnt need to be ultra powerful, just a normal office type machine that will be running Word, excel etc and in the second screen it will be running a VNC session to another machine to display whats happening on that one. So, any suggestions? JB Isn't it justt he graphics card that does this for you... i.e. 2 monitor ports? The problem is then making sure that the graphics card fits your machine. I have it on my computer but dont even use it tbh. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alex Posted October 4, 2007 Share Posted October 4, 2007 I thought that all dual output graphics cards could do 2 screens simultaniously?? (looks like there's an echo in here!) Having said that I know at work we have some Matrox cards that are specifically for driving multiple screens.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shovels Posted October 4, 2007 Share Posted October 4, 2007 most video cards will do dual screen. Some will have a DVI and a Analogue port, others will have dual DVI. I would try and get a Dual DVI. But just make sure your monitors support DVI. Another option is the Matrox Dual and Tripple HEad2Go. These wil take a single graphics head and allow you to run 2 or 3 screens. A basic Radeon 9200 Has dual screen support and cost sub £30. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pabs Posted October 4, 2007 Share Posted October 4, 2007 Agree with the above - we have some really cheap/old GFX cards that are DVI, but come with a DVI cable which splits into two, for 2 monitors. Not quite sure how this works, as it doesn't just duplicate the monitors, but allows for extended desktop across both screens. Works nicely. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SBDJ Posted October 4, 2007 Share Posted October 4, 2007 Yup, most GFX cards these days are dual head anyway. I've just stuck a Matrox Parhelia in one of the office PCs, thats driving 1xDVI and 2xVGA with a different display on each Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pete Posted October 4, 2007 Share Posted October 4, 2007 You can even stick in two old PCI cards, or one AGP and one PCI. The OS will take care of the rest. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SBDJ Posted October 5, 2007 Share Posted October 5, 2007 IIRC, only certain PCI cards are supported for dual-display though? Edit: I might be talking rubbish - might be thinking of old Windows 98... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Inferno Posted October 5, 2007 Share Posted October 5, 2007 Hi Branners, As the others have suggested, there is no need to buy a new PC - just grab a nice cheap entry level video card with dual outputs. Then you can configure windows to output to both monitors (Via control panel/Display settings) and you can have them split as you like - 2 desktops, one big desktop, etc. As a cheapy, perhaps something like an ATI Radeon X1550. If both monitors are just VGA and don't have DVI connectors, just buy a couple of DVI->VGA converters and you are all set to go. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Branners Posted October 5, 2007 Author Share Posted October 5, 2007 thanks for the pointers guys, I will shop around for the cards mentioned above and just stuff one of those in instead. JB Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
caseys Posted October 6, 2007 Share Posted October 6, 2007 Dual screen output either buy a high-end card with DVI + Vga / HDMI output... Or buy two reasonable priced PCI cards and have two separte DVI/VGA. At my work I've got a 4 x 21' monitor setup, just got a bog-standard corporate Dell with 4 graphic cards in. It's always fun trying to find the mouse pointer. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pot Posted October 6, 2007 Share Posted October 6, 2007 At home I've got a 7600GT which does my 2 monitors easilly, and at work the port replicator for my laptop has 2 outputs (The laptop has only 1), but that handles 2 monitors too Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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