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sailor · 11-07-2003, 09:16 AM

Yeah, you dont need anything fancy to drive the second monitor. I run a Radeon 8500 to drive my primary, and a 5 year old 4mb POS Matrox I had lying around to drive the second. Works like a charm--I run it at 1280x1024, 32 bit color, 70hz refresh and dont see any slowing down at all. Since most anything that will really use a graphics card hard (read: games) is going to use the primary monitor, the secondary card doesnt matter as much.

My advice? Like Dilbert said, go find a cheap used PCI card somewhere (eBay maybe?).

11-07-2003, 09:16 AM	#6 (permalink)
sailor beauty in the breakdown Location: Chapel Hill, NC	Yeah, you dont need anything fancy to drive the second monitor. I run a Radeon 8500 to drive my primary, and a 5 year old 4mb POS Matrox I had lying around to drive the second. Works like a charm--I run it at 1280x1024, 32 bit color, 70hz refresh and dont see any slowing down at all. Since most anything that will really use a graphics card hard (read: games) is going to use the primary monitor, the secondary card doesnt matter as much. My advice? Like Dilbert said, go find a cheap used PCI card somewhere (eBay maybe?). __________________ "Good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will find a way around the laws." --Plato