Author Topic: Monitor Question (Read 2024 times)

Tbone · « **on:** June 27, 2010, 05:09:37 pm »

My brother had this question for me:

"Hey can you help me out? I want to get a cheap video card that will allow me to have dual monitors on my work computer. I plan on using 2 just normal monitors we have just laying here at the office so 2 VGA ports would be what I need, but it seems most video cards either have VGA + DVI or 2 DVI or DVI-I or whatever. I think there is an adapter for DVI to VGA though. Also how many MBs do you think I would need? Not really doing anything that requires much graphics processing, but I wanna make sure it's good enough to handle 2 monitors without being slow or having delays. I've read some reviews on external USB dual monitor cards that end up having a lag on one screen, so I want to avoid that. You may be too busy to look all this up but if you have a simple answer or any advice it'd help."

Lithium · « **Reply #1 on:** June 27, 2010, 08:46:08 pm »

Yeah if there are DVI ports then you probably need to get a common DVI-to-VGA converter. They are extremely common and easy to find.

Running two monitors is not that intensive for regular applications. Any type of card or onboard gfx will suffice just fine.