As long as you got semi stable drivers multimonitors is no problem. I ran 2pci tnt2 cards and a g2 pro agp car in win2k with no problems some years ago(2*17" and 1*19")
After that I've upgraded my hardware and run winxp on 2*19" on a ati 9700pro agp.
As long as you know what you're doing and not let the different pci cards mess around on the same irq with bad drivers it's no problem.
I did some testing pn how much resources it took to run a 2d desktop which updated with some numbers and a remote desktop session on the second screen while I played some regular games on the main screen.
The drop in fps and 3dmark scores with having the second screen on was between 1 and 2%.
Pretty interesting to see my netusage and ramload on the second screen while I game, different games behave differently.
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Last edited by Supradog; 04-09-2004 at 06:07 PM..
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