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Multiply Displays With One Graphics Accelerator?

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GIJersey

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I have never done this before and have a few questions? I want to run multiple monitors on my rig. How is it done with one graphics card? For instance the new VisionTek GeForce 4 cards have dual DAC's that say they support two monitors with nVieW or Twinview. But how do you physically plug the second monitor into the card? It only has one VGA out, a DVI out, and S-Video out. Same thing with one of their older cards the GeForce 2 MX400 it has dual DAC's and only has a VGA out and SVHS out.

My question is how do you get the sceond monitor into these cards? An adaptor? I have heard that there are DVI to VGA adaptors available. How about S-Video to VGA, is that a possible solution?


Thanks!
 
Some video cards have two svga connectors, but many now have a single svga connector and a single dvi connector for flat panels. You would use a converter for dvi to svga. I have this setup. I'm not sure about s-video to svga. I don't know if those connectors exist.
 
It depends on the card. Just because is has two dac's does not mean that two CRTs are supported. Some cards come with two vga connectors, others come with an extra vga connector on a second board that plugs into the video card and takes up room, but does not plug into another slot. Some cards also some with an adaptor that plugs into a DVI slot that also has analog pins.
 
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