Video Card Question

[gnome]

Quote from hwkaiser:

"... I believe you can purchase a DVI splitter from Dell and push 3 monitors from one card...

Nope. Splitters will show the same image on 2 monitors and usually with significantly degraded quality.

 

[hwkaiser]

Quote from lilboy716:

pay up for a video card that has dual DVI. Running DVI monitor on VGA port is bad.


http://www.techmind.org/lcd/

Very good advice, if I may add...

a good video card with onboard memory will not consume precious system resources which will slow down performance... Money well spent is on a video card and RAM if running XP 2MB is recommended and 4MB if running Vista (very hungry operating system)

blue skies and tail winds...

 

[hwkaiser]

Quote from gnome:

Nope. Splitters will show the same image on 2 monitors and usually with significantly degraded quality.

Thank you for the correction,

I specifically asked the Dell rep if the splitter would allow "extended desktop" functionality and he said it would... I personally prefer dual cards and am configuring my new XPS 710 accordingly. I was just passing on the information provided me.

 

[gnome]

Quote from hwkaiser:

Thank you for the correction,

I specifically asked the Dell rep if the splitter would allow "extended desktop" functionality and he said it would... I personally prefer dual cards and am configuring my new XPS 710 accordingly. I was just passing on the information provided me.

Of course you can have extended desktop, but each monitor must have a separate video card port*, not a splitter.

*some cards, like Quadro NVS, use a "Y-cable" which resembles a splitter, but it's functionally 2 separate ports.