Guest Jay Stevens Posted August 16, 2007 Posted August 16, 2007 I currently am using two Samsung 19 inch monitors and need to add another. I'm thinking of buying a 23 inch and put it in the middle between the two 19 inch. The video card I have is Nvidia GeForce 6800GT. What would be the best way to do this? Should I buy one more video card that has at least one preferably two monitors and use it on the new monitor? Should I buy a new video card that has three monitor out's on it? Do they even make such video cards. If I buy another video card and still use the one I have on the two 19 inch all I have available are the PCI slots. Would that be OK? Thanks J
Guest DL Posted August 16, 2007 Posted August 16, 2007 Re: Adding another monitor It might depend on what use you put your sys to, ie gameing or business, and maybe what type of display layouts you wish to achieve. For business use I would suggest you visit the Matrox site "Jay Stevens" <J.stevens@them4me.com> wrote in message news:WZQwi.14590$eY.13403@newssvr13.news.prodigy.net... >I currently am using two Samsung 19 inch monitors and need to add another. > I'm thinking of buying a 23 inch and put it in the middle between the two > 19 inch. > The video card I have is Nvidia GeForce 6800GT. > What would be the best way to do this? > Should I buy one more video card that has at least one preferably two > monitors and use it on the new monitor? Should I buy a new video card that > has three monitor out's on it? Do they even make such video cards. > If I buy another video card and still use the one I have on the two 19 > inch all I have available are the PCI slots. Would that be OK? > > Thanks > > J >
Guest Jay Stevens Posted August 16, 2007 Posted August 16, 2007 Re: Adding another monitor I use it mostly for audio editing. No gaming, nothing like that. J "DL" <address@invalid> wrote in message news:O35ZVK%233HHA.2108@TK2MSFTNGP02.phx.gbl... > It might depend on what use you put your sys to, ie gameing or business, > and maybe what type of display layouts you wish to achieve. > For business use I would suggest you visit the Matrox site > > "Jay Stevens" <J.stevens@them4me.com> wrote in message > news:WZQwi.14590$eY.13403@newssvr13.news.prodigy.net... >>I currently am using two Samsung 19 inch monitors and need to add another. >> I'm thinking of buying a 23 inch and put it in the middle between the two >> 19 inch. >> The video card I have is Nvidia GeForce 6800GT. >> What would be the best way to do this? >> Should I buy one more video card that has at least one preferably two >> monitors and use it on the new monitor? Should I buy a new video card >> that has three monitor out's on it? Do they even make such video cards. >> If I buy another video card and still use the one I have on the two 19 >> inch all I have available are the PCI slots. Would that be OK? >> >> Thanks >> >> J >> > >
Guest Ken Blake, MVP Posted August 16, 2007 Posted August 16, 2007 Re: Adding another monitor On Thu, 16 Aug 2007 05:09:10 GMT, "Jay Stevens" <J.stevens@them4me.com> wrote: > I currently am using two Samsung 19 inch monitors and need to add another. > I'm thinking of buying a 23 inch and put it in the middle between the two 19 > inch. > The video card I have is Nvidia GeForce 6800GT. > What would be the best way to do this? > Should I buy one more video card that has at least one preferably two > monitors and use it on the new monitor? Should I buy a new video card that > has three monitor out's on it? Do they even make such video cards. > If I buy another video card and still use the one I have on the two 19 inch > all I have available are the PCI slots. Would that be OK? The *best* way (but clearly the most expensive way) is to replace your card with one that supports three monitors. That has two advantages over buying a second card: 1. You don't have to worry about possible incompatibilities between two cards. 2. You don't get the slowdown of using a PCI card. -- Ken Blake, Microsoft MVP Windows - Shell/User Please Reply to the Newsgroup
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