Dual Monitors

[joshharrington]

Is it better to have two video cards if you have dual monitors, or one video card for two monitors. My 9700 Pro has two outputs that can run dual screens, but I was just wondering what's best.

 

[AzNPinkTuv]

if this helps any, i didnt see a performance drop from 2 screens in gaming on my 9800 pro or 7800gs then 1 screen..

 

[joshharrington]

ic...well i was just wondering if you would see a performance drop if you used two cards..one just being a pci standard card

 

[joshharrington]

anyone else?

 

[Matthias99]

Running two monitors on one modern card makes no realistic difference. The 2D stuff on the second display takes essentially zero time for the GPU to do.

 

[lifeblood]

With some games, if you have the game open on one monitor and an app on the other monitor, you cannot alt-tab out of the game to the other app. With two vid cards you can. This problem only occurs in certain games (Civ 4 I think) so will most likely not be a problem. I've run two monitors on both one and two vid cards before and that is the only diffeence I've seen.

 

[joshharrington]

ok thanks guys...that's all I needed!