Sandy Bridge IGP - max resolution on dual display

mrjoltcola

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Wife does a lot of work with Dreamweaver & other Adobe tools and Expression Web, Photoshop, etc. She does not game or do any significant rendering or CAD.

She uses dual displays (1920x1200 and 1024x1280 DVI LCDs).

I want to build her a micro/mini with probably an ASUS Micro ATX P8Z68-M (http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16813131786) because of the builtin DVI & DisplayPort.

Looking at Intel's sheet on the Sandy Bridge IGPU it says 2560x1600 max, but doesn't mention the max for dual, and I'm not sure if it is as simple as dividing the overall resolution across the number of displays or not.

My Googling turned up vague answers, like possibly max resolution of 1600x1200 for dual displays? Anyone know for sure / have references?

It isn't a major issue to throw a GPU in, I have some older dual DVI cards sitting around (9800 GT and Quadro 550), but if I can get by with onboard only, I have choice of a few more compact case options (I think).