[deuce]

I wish to create an extended (dual) desktop for my system. How do I go about doing so, and what are the best ways to do it? I will either be using a 19" LCD and 13" CRT or a 19" CRT and a 13" CRT. The 13" is my current monitor, and I will be getting a new one soon; the 13" will be my extended monitor. (obviously)

I'm running XP Pro. My current video card is a Radeon 7200, 64 MB DDR, VGA, s-video and composite output, composite-input, 4x AGP pro.

Can I get away with just buying a decent quality PCI video card for the extended desktop, or should I really just get a new AGP video card? The main thing I see about using my current card, is that I don't have a DVI output, and might be using a LCD as my main monitor. If I could get feedback on this for both the LCD/CRT setup and the CRT/CRT setup, that would be great.


If I can get any and all info on this, that would be great. I don't really know how I want to go about doing this, but just that I want to do it and there are some really different options for this. Thanks!




Windows XP Pro
1.4 Ghz P4
640 MB RD-Ram
ATI Radeon 7200
MSI MS-6339 (Intel 850GB chipset)

 

[Rockn]

Kind of hard to add another AGP card since there is only one AGP slot per motherboard so that option is out. Just get a good PCI card and it will work just fine. YOu just have to decide what you want, and find the matching connection type on the monitor you want.

 

[deuce]

What I meant by getting a new AGP card, was one of those fireGL type of things (replacing my current card). Or is adding a PCI card not much of a difference? If I were to add a pci card, it would be either 16 or 32 mb. I don't have a dvi output on my radeon card, but I don't really care if I do go with the LCD.


So once I buy a pci card, how do I go about setting this up?

 

[deuce]

*BUMP* slipped way down pg 3.


Does anybody know how I go about setting this up?

I'm most likely just buying a pci video card, although I'm pretty sure I'm going with the LCD monitor, so I'm not sure if I should get a fireGL type of AGP card so I can get the DVI output, and while I'm at it have both the monitors going through the AGP. I assume a VGA to DVI adapter doesn't make any difference correct? You still are giving the monitor an analogue signal because it comes out of the card as VGA, correct?