Who here has Dual Monitors on their main rig?

[Athlon4all]

I am on my main rig, and I personally love the extra desktop space, even tho my 2nd monitor is only a 13".

 

[Mem]

Nope,I would rather get a bigger screen,plus don`t like moving my head too much .

 

[Occifer]

I borrowed an extra monitor from work and now I'm hooked.
Has anyone found that you take a performance hit if you game on the secondary monitor? Seems a little sluggish to me.

Viewsonic G90f "19
Viewsonic E75f "17

 

[RemyCanad]

I use dual 17". It really helps with stocks.

 

[Wolfsraider]

21" and 19" here using two video cards=performance hit?

 

[mskalak]

How do you go about setting up a dual monitor display? Do you need to have an AGP video card and a PCI one? I have an old PCI 3d card around and I was trying to play with it, but I had no idea what I was doing.

 

[manwithplan]

ive been meaning to go with a multi monitor setup for ages, just never had the space/time/2nd monitor!

ive now aquired a sony 15" trinitron so i think ill give it a whirl once i get a a cheapo pci gfx acrd. ill probs just 'borrow' an old ati one out of one of the disused pc in my dads office

c.

 

[Gosharkss]

I have dual Cornerstone p1500 21" Monitors running off a Matrox G450. For business use this is the best setup I can think of. Spread sheets etc. on one monitor and E-mail etc. on the other. I'll never go back to a single monitor.

 

[Adul]

tried it once with win98. I liked it

 

[robg1701]

Dual ? pfftt

I use a Tri monitor system personally...

2x 19" Mitsubishi Diamondtron, and a 17" Mag.....the 17" will be changing to a 14" thoguh, ans the 17" is going onto my old computer which is now in the living room as an entertainment box whilst doubling as a 2nd PC to stop people bothering me for access to mine

 

[powerMarkymark]

Used to have a triple monitor setup on my old system, then when I got my new rig I took two of my three monitors for dual monitor setup.

 

[JAG84]

Two 19" monitors here. A must have for graphics design. Gonna have to sell the car and a few limbs to get a dual 22" setup.

 

ME! Thanks to a visit to an elite members' (from these forums ) house. He had three plus tv, I only have a 19" and a 17".

 

[onelin]

I don't, but I plan to I've tried it (plus dual output w/ a TV) on my MSI GF4 Ti4400VIVO, but I don't have a second monitor I can snag full time just yet. I plan on just buying that 19" I've always wanted, then using my 17" as a secondary full time.

 

[mastertech01]

I think I would appreciate it more if they were flat panels. Two large monitors put off heap big amounts of heat, draw lots of current, and with a dually Athlon system heat is something I dont need more of.

 

[wasnlos]

Threesome here

Couldn't live without it.

 

[CubicZirconia]

I'm currently running a 17" Viewsonic with an old 15" dell.

 

[GrumpyMan]

I have been using duals for a little over a year, won't go back either. Trips sounds good too.

 

[joohang]

Originally posted by: wasnlos
Threesome here

Couldn't live without it.

 

[mfavin]

Dell 20" LCD 1600x1200 + Planar 18" LCD 1280x1024

Using a Gainward Geforce 4 4600, the only Nividia based card with 2 DVI outputs.

Yes, it owns.

 

[madthumbs]

Using a 19" and a 43" HDTV monitor. I rarely use desktop spanning and mostly just switch between the two.

 

[VirtualLarry]

Originally posted by: robg1701
Dual ? pfftt

I use a Tri monitor system personally...

2x 19" Mitsubishi Diamondtron, and a 17" Mag.....the 17" will be changing to a 14" thoguh, ans the 17" is going onto my old computer which is now in the living room as an entertainment box whilst doubling as a 2nd PC to stop people bothering me for access to mine

At one time, I had two 20" fixed-freq Sony GDM-1961 monitors and a 19" multi-sync re-branded MAG monitor, all hooked up to Matrox Millenium PCI cards, running both Win98se and W2K. Was really cool, although watching movies was really sluggish on anything by the primary. Seems like the bus-mastering features of the cards would decide to disable in the drivers randomly. It was really neat watching the multi-screen screen-savers bounce around. The 20" were running at 1280x1024 (fixed-freq, that's the res they were designed to run at), and the 19" I could switch between any res up to 1600x1200. Was more a novelty for me than anything else, but it was nice to have a web browser open on a seperate screen, and an editor in another. Overall though, it was rather slow, running three PCI video cards on an older K6-2 400Mhz machine.