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Dual Monitor Ownage

PostPosted: Feb 11, 2003 @ 6:31am
by sponge
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I feel the need to brag this, for no real reason. I had an extra computer which recently died out, so I harvested it today, and this happened.

Oh, the picture in Photoshop is merely for sample purposes :P

PostPosted: Feb 11, 2003 @ 3:53pm
by MZGuy
*sigh* my Gainward card with dual screen output started behaving weird so I had to RMA it. They sent back a better GF4 card, but without support for 2 monitors, so now I'm waiting for a good one.
And, yes dual monitors r0x0rz.
It can be kinda funny to watch anamorphic widescreen movies spanned over 2 monitors, but the space between 'em gets a bit annoying after a while ;)

PostPosted: Feb 11, 2003 @ 4:15pm
by refractor
Windows 2000/XP seem pretty happy to accept any PCI card along with an AGP card :) I have an AGP GF2 and a PCI TNT2 in my "games" machine at home (and a nice Matrox G400 dual-head on the server).

On the piece of poo on my desk at work I've got the onboard GF2MX and an ancient Matrox Millenium working happily together.

Debugging "onpaint" methods is so much easier with two monitors ;)

PostPosted: Feb 11, 2003 @ 4:24pm
by Michael Y
Hah, I have 3+ monitors! 2 monitors for regular usage and when I want to work on web pages, etc, a TV for when I want to watch movies or TV shows, and a VCR hooked up to my last port for when I need to get videos I can watch in school.

PostPosted: Feb 11, 2003 @ 6:27pm
by James S
Wow... I'm famous... or rather infamous. Eh, potato patatoe.

I kidn of want to sell my desktop, and then I'm going to hook up my mom's desktop with my 21" monitor and dual it with her 17". She'd like that.

PostPosted: Feb 11, 2003 @ 9:33pm
by RICoder

PostPosted: Feb 11, 2003 @ 9:58pm
by sponge

PostPosted: Feb 11, 2003 @ 10:07pm
by Matt Keys

PostPosted: Feb 11, 2003 @ 10:41pm
by David Horn

PostPosted: Feb 11, 2003 @ 11:38pm
by Robotbeat
It all depends on the quality of the display, though.

PostPosted: Feb 11, 2003 @ 11:57pm
by sponge
Matt: If both LCDs are for games, then forget about it, nothing is really multimonitor friendly. The lag time on new LCDs have been getting a lot better - I know someone who's nearly professional level in Quake3, and he uses a flat panel.

PostPosted: Feb 12, 2003 @ 12:14am
by Robotbeat

PostPosted: Feb 12, 2003 @ 6:31am
by sponge

PostPosted: Feb 12, 2003 @ 7:57am
by Sm!rk

PostPosted: Feb 12, 2003 @ 8:39am
by nicodemus