3 monitors?

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Loshee

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Hey, I currently have dual monitors set up, real easy, my GFX card (7600GT) has 2 slots, plug one in each and select extend to monitor in desktop properties.

But how would I add a third monitor? It would actually be very useful to me.
 
Search is your friend :P Someone asked the same question a few days ago. You can only use two monitors at a time on a 7600, MAYBE 3 in clone, but not duel view.

In short, you'll need another, additional video card.
 
What? I know cards are capable of 3 and 4 simultaneous outputs, but the 7600 is not one of those. And what is this? Just a USB to VGA/DVI converter/video card? Eh...it'd probably be much better and cheaper to just get some older PCI card.
 
^^ It really depends, sometimes if you have more than 1 video card running and if they're different brands, drivers can crash.


and besides, the eVGA looks really cool. You can stack them.
 
Depends on what you plan to use you system for. If it's business applications, another cheap card is probably your best bet. If you love to game, a TH2G is really great, although your current video card would probably choke on most games at 3840x1024.
 
I also am looking into a third monitor setup and found a great application that should help me.. It's called Ultramon and works pretty well .

Now I assume that multiple screen(more than two) systems were around before the days of SLi/Crossfire so is it just a case of me plugging up a second video card independent of my first one(unlinked) and connecting the third monitor to it then using the software I found to display all three?

The answer will benefit both myself and the OP and i'm still on topic so I haven't hijacked the thread before anyone says I have:P
 
Intel_man said:
Umm... you never knew?


Running on 32 Bit OS and when you have 5GB or more RAM, they don't get entirely used by the OS itself, so it gets relocated as video memory.
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Um... no... The max RAM 32bit Windows can use is something around 3.5GB. I'm pretty sure the rest is just sort of lost seeing as Windows isn't capable of addressing it.

I know some RAM can be allocated as additional RAM for your video card. With AGP it was your "AGP Aperture". I forget what it's called for PCI-Express. But regardless, with AGP it was only used when you ran out of VRAM. Plus system RAM is typically a fair amount slower than VRAM. PLUS, simply adding RAM to a video card does not enable it to support additional displays.
 
So to have three monitors, is it just a case of having two graphics cards non linked(SLi/Crossfire) and appropriate SW to manage them such as ULTRAMON?
 
Sorry I'm starting to feel like I've hijacked this thread now(please tell me if I have OP )

But I was wondering which of the two cards would be seen as the primary out of the two if I were to load a game up and wanted to use the better card of the two?
 
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