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Operate 2 monitor to display different things using only 1 CPU

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zeafido12

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I'm thinking to do something as above, I'm not sure if its workable and how to do it...
what I want is,

- I use 1 CPU, 1 mouse and 1 keyboard for 2 monitors
- I can get the 2 monitors to display different things, eg. monitor A display a bar chart, and monitor B display a video at the same time with good performance.
- When switching between monitors, it won't affect the current thing being display on the monitors.

Anyone has the above experience or have tried something like this before, would appreciate if u could with us. 🙂

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Your other thread about this in Technical Support is the in the right place.

Thank you,

AnandTech Moderator
 
What you want is a good recent video card with dual display capability. These cards come with software that can help you manaage your desktop across 2 monitors and do exactly the kind of thing you are talking about. It doesnt really matter what CPU you have, but obviously a faster one will be better for multitasking of any sort. Just about any card would allow you to view a video or game in one monitor while using a spreadsheet in another.

Most ATI cards and many Nvidia cards come with this feature standard these days. ATI is generally acknowledged to be ahead in the software implementation, but Nvidia is catching up quickly, and the Geforce 4 series version of Twinview software is much better than the first generation.

Do a search for dual head on these forums and elsewhere to learn more about it.

IMO, if you are into gaming and want dual display, a Radeon 8500le is the best right now, or Geforce 4 4200 if you are crazy for it. If yer not a gamer, the Radeon 7000 has great DVD playback and dual head cheap (in Canada and USA anyhow).
 
Thanks for the info...

I have check on the available version of ATI 7000 video cards, none of them comes with 2 VGA outputs, so how am I going to connect the 2 monitors to the card?
 
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