Is it required to have identical monitors for a dual setup?

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Farrsolo

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I am trying to help a friend explain to his boss that he doesn't need to have matching monitors for a dual setup. The video card being used a Quadro 4000, I looked on the website and it is capable to handle 2 displays up to 2560x1600.

Does anyone have any actual documentation to confirm this? That any 2 monitors can be used without issues. I can't find anything online or from the nvidia website to confirm.

I know from personal use there would be no issues.

Thanks!
 
Just bring in a spare monitor and show him :P The card can do 2560x1600 worth of displays. Say your first monitor is 800x900 (making this up idk or care to get a real res) then you can add another monitor that is 800x1660+ aa

my apologies, keyboard just went haywire @ work :P anyway: 800X1600 in this ridiculous hypothetical scenario :P....You can't have a monitor that is 2560x1600 and then add another...explain to him that that is a very large screen area and that you can even change around the resolutions so that each monitor is different...show him how you can change the resolution of what he has now by simply a click of a button...or just tell him to listen to you for once cuz you're right ;P

I mean heck, I can run 3 monitors off of my intel HD4000 graphics lol!
 
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thanks for your reply, but I am looking for an actual reference,

I should clarify the situation, my friend works for a CAD company, he is trying to upgrade his workstation with a larger monitor and use his current one as a secondary. His IT department is telling his boss that 2 different sized monitors is going to cause problems (not 2 of the same size).

But you and I know it won't. But there has to be actual documentation stating this somewhere. i searched Nvidia website and found nothing regarding 2 different sized monitors. Just says that Card can support 2 monitors.

he needs legitimate proof that it won't or will work. Pretty crazy but I was just trying to help him out.

thanks
 
nvidia's drivers will support a spanned desktop at different resolutions and dpi levels...the IT dept is full of crap.
 
xarik said:
Just bring in a spare monitor and show him :P The card can do 2560x1600 worth of displays. Say your first monitor is 800x900 (making this up idk or care to get a real res) then you can add another monitor that is 800x1660+ aa

my apologies, keyboard just went haywire @ work :P anyway: 800X1600 in this ridiculous hypothetical scenario :P....You can't have a monitor that is 2560x1600 and then add another...
Click to expand...

I run a 2560x1600 monitor and a 1200x1600 monitor off of one card. It is most certainly possible.

http://www.computerforum.com/77883-post-your-room-workspace-92.html#post1882044

The limitation of 2560x1600 is for each port that a display can run off of. (DVI or DP) If you used 2x dual DVI and one DP with an active adapter you can run 3 2560x1600 monitors or more..
 
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The problem the IT dept. may be referring to is a limitation related to the CAD software, not nvidia drivers. Just be careful and check.
 
Yea, I use the same software and it is little bit awkward to use 2 different sized monitors, so I mainly use the larger one to do CAD stuff and the second one is for references, emails, charts, spreadsheets, second instances of the CAD software. there are no issues doing this.

Thanks!!
 
Salvage-this, Thanks :) I was incorrect sorry for misinforming :P...I didn't realize it was a more official work area, figured it was something where the IT dept didn't care :P Would a video work?
 
No problem. I didn't really know what would happen till I plugged mine in.

@Farrsolo take a laptop in and connect it to the monitor. you will have one laptop display and one 1600 screen. 2 screens one pc, one GPU. That is really the easiest way to prove it to them.
 
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