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I am pretty sure of the answer on this but wanted to confirm with someone who had some firsthand experience in this:

The system in question has a Aopen MX4SG-N motherboard, which is using an Intel 865G chipset. It has onboard video, and an AGP slot. The onboard video is disabled as soon as you put an AGP card in the system, correct? meaning you can't use onboard VGA + AGP video card for a dual monitor setup

now I also seem to think that the onboard video probably can co-exist with a PCI video card, also correct?


The alternative is to find a AGP card with dual VGA, however since I need the card to be low profile this looks to be a real challenge - I located a few low profile PCI video cards however.
 
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Originally posted by: Pluto
The alternative is to find a AGP card with dual VGA, however since I need the card to be low profile this looks to be a real challenge - I located a few low profile PCI video cards however.
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nVidia Quadro NVS series for the win. eBayable for under $50 in most cases, low-profile, and dual-head. And very nice 2D quality. :)

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Originally posted by: Matthias99
Um, are you looking at the same links I am? Those are all low-profile dual-head R9250 cards. :confused:
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Yes. What's going to happen to that dongle-attached VGA connector when you have to swap out the bracket for the low-profile one? ;)

This is a low-profile dualhead card.

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Originally posted by: MercenaryForHire
Yes. What's going to happen to that dongle-attached VGA connector when you have to swap out the bracket for the low-profile one? ;)

This is a low-profile dualhead card.
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The PowerColor comes with a replacement plate for rear panel placement. as for the dongle attached VGA connector, I guess I'll just have to be creative :)

The PNY one does look nice but costs almost $200 cdn new

I never thought to look on NewEgg since they don't ship to Canada but I'll keep their Power Search function in mind next time I'm looking for something! thanks.
 
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Originally posted by: MercenaryForHire
Originally posted by: Matthias99
Um, are you looking at the same links I am? Those are all low-profile dual-head R9250 cards. :confused:
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Yes. What's going to happen to that dongle-attached VGA connector when you have to swap out the bracket for the low-profile one? ;)

- M4H
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Um, you run it to a bracket in the next slot?

Also, the card you linked to doesn't seem to have a true half-height bracket, either (unless it comes with one and they're not showing it). So it wouldn't work in this case either.
 
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Originally posted by: Matthias99
Originally posted by: MercenaryForHire
Originally posted by: Matthias99
Um, are you looking at the same links I am? Those are all low-profile dual-head R9250 cards. :confused:
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Yes. What's going to happen to that dongle-attached VGA connector when you have to swap out the bracket for the low-profile one? ;)

- M4H
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Um, you run it to a bracket in the next slot?

Also, the card you linked to doesn't seem to have a true half-height bracket, either (unless it comes with one and they're not showing it). So it wouldn't work in this case either.
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Comes with one, just isn't shown.

And OP - eBay.ca for the win. Hell, I have a Quadro NVS200 sitting at home not doing squat. Brand new in the IBM OEM box, just needs cables. ::)

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while I'm on the subject of Dual Monitors, for another customer who has newer systems with PCI-E slots I was looking for a cheap, dual monitor (does not need to be low profile) card

I looked at the products from Asus and noticed this:
http://usa.asus.com/products/vga/eax300se-x/overview.htm <- this card does not mention dual monitor support, plus the DVI port is DVI-D making the use of a DVI->VGA adapter impossible I believe. I'm unclear on whether it can do dual head at all (with one of the monitors being a digital DVI device)
http://usa.asus.com/products/vga/eax300se-td/overview.htm <- this card does mention dual VGA and it is DVI-I and comes with the adapter

I looked at several other mfg's, and all of them seemed to look like the first Asus card (VGA on a dongle) so I am skeptical that any of them will support dual VGA. thoughts?
 
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Originally posted by: Pluto
while I'm on the subject of Dual Monitors, for another customer who has newer systems with PCI-E slots I was looking for a cheap, dual monitor (does not need to be low profile) card

I looked at the products from Asus and noticed this:
http://usa.asus.com/products/vga/eax300se-x/overview.htm <- this card does not mention dual monitor support, plus the DVI port is DVI-D making the use of a DVI->VGA adapter impossible I believe. I'm unclear on whether it can do dual head at all (with one of the monitors being a digital DVI device)
http://usa.asus.com/products/vga/eax300se-td/overview.htm <- this card does mention dual VGA and it is DVI-I and comes with the adapter

I looked at several other mfg's, and all of them seemed to look like the first Asus card (VGA on a dongle) so I am skeptical that any of them will support dual VGA. thoughts?
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I saw the other thread on this (please don't cross-post from one thread to another!).

"VGA on a dongle" does not preclude having dual monitor support.

The cards with only DVI-D are pretty sneaky, though. I suspect they would still work with dual monitors, but only if one is DVI and the other is VGA. But I guess anything is possible.

Here's the other thread about these cards: thread
 
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