dual monitor

[Skie]

Bought a dell insprion 570 today. Dell site says it comes stock with a ATI Radeon HD4200 graphics card. Is it possible to get dual monitor setup? And how do I do it if possible. Haven't owneed a desktop sence I was 14

[Zeno McDohl]

Looks like that video card has multiple outputs, so yes. Should simply just be plugging 2 monitors in to the graphic card.

[Equitas]

Bought a dell insprion 570 today. Dell site says it comes stock with a ATI Radeon HD4200 graphics card. Is it possible to get dual monitor setup? And how do I do it if possible. Haven't owneed a desktop sence I was 14

Once a video card is plugged in you just need to hook them into the card, goto your graphic settings on card an initilize the 2nd monitor then pick one of the options for multi monitor setups.

its very easy

[Skie]

One monitor is hooked in. So basicly buy a new one and plut it into another slot? Will I need to purchase another cable? Also will it be like I move the mose to left of one screen and it appears on other side? I don't want like two copys of the same screen

[nitsuj]

One monitor is hooked in. So basicly buy a new one and plut it into another slot? Will I need to purchase another cable? Also will it be like I move the mose to left of one screen and it appears on other side? I don't want like two copys of the same screen

You can set it up to mirror or extend your desk, you have that power

And yes you'll need a cable, but your new monitor should come with one.

[Skie]

Just got home and checked back of the tower.... there is no where to plug in another monitor all i have is 2 usb ports and a hdmi port.

[shidobu]

<__<

hdmi > vga cables goo.....or hdmi > dvi.

[SaviorSelf]

Or HDMI into an HD monitor, without any conversions.

[bungiefan]

HDMI is digital, VGA is analog. You can't adapt them. You can adapt HDMI to DVI-D to use a DVI monitor, but not a VGA one. HDMI is where you would plug in the second monitor.

The major OSes have supported multiple screens for at least a decade. You simply tell them what you want the screens to do and how they are arranged. It's not rocket surgery or brain science to figure out.

[Skie]

This is the monitor i have

http://www.walmart.com/ip/Dell-ST2310/13907682

I think its connected via VGA, its what ever the stock cable was that came with it. it will work if this one is connected via vga and the other is connected via hdmi right?

[sruon]

it will don't worry, I have multiple dual monitors combo and one of them is HDMI + VGA

[Skie]

is it possible to have 3 with one cpu?

also stole my gfs 26' tv from her room to test it out before i buy one. works great and fun lol but is there a way to like watch a youtube vid on one screen (in full mode) and click on the other screen without it going back to small screen on the vid? also is there a way to play sims with picture on both screens? when i try its covering one screen and making the other screen unusable.

[sruon]

For youtube part, I've never found a fix and I'd agree it's really annoying.

As for splitting Sims window on 2 screens... it's possible but generally it's bad unless the game was meant to.

[bungiefan]

Depends on the graphics card, and how many monitor plugins it has. Generally you can only have two screens active at a time, even if you have 3 plugins, unless you are doing multiple graphics cards. However, some Radeon EyeFiniti cards now are supporting 6 monitors.

[SaviorSelf]

However, some Radeon EyeFiniti cards now are supporting 6 monitors.

Refer to sig. Need a bigger desk now!

[Doombear]

There are some addons that will keep SOME flash players in full screen while you are on the second monitor. Some players work, some don't.

For example using something like this i am able to keep ESPN360 full screen while working on my second monitor, but Netflix (and Silverlight in general actually) is not affected and will go back to the smaller size if i click off that monitor. Some people are able to use "CTRL+Scroll Wheel" on the video screen, enlarge it that way. I find that to be annoying...

[bungiefan]

Refer to sig. Need a bigger desk now!

http://news.thomasnet.com/fullstory/575322

1. In tests AMD achieved an average 80.6 FPS in the game "Left4Dead 2" using a six screen configuration with one ATI Radeon HD 5870 Eyefinity 6 Edition card, 80.6 x (1920 x 1080 x 6) = 1.002 billion pixels per second

2. Full HD resolution is considered 1080p (1920x1080 = ~2.1 megapixels). One ATI Radeon graphics card with ATI Eyefinity technology supports up to 2560x1600x6 = ~24.6 megapixels for 12 x full HD resolution.

[miokomioko]

I have a pair of Radeon 5700s connected via Crossfire X (they both have 2 DVI ports) and running Windows 7 with a dual-monitor setup.

Is it normal for dual-monitors to only work when both monitors are hooked into the same card in a Crossfire X situation? I was hoping to have each card only render half of my desktop (which I thought I read you could do and I still don't know if that's what's happening right now), essentially splitting the workload between the two cards, but with them needing to be both plugged into the same card... I am doubting that is the case right now unless the Crossfire X cable is essentially piping half of the work to the other card for me.

[Skie]

Ok so bought a HDMI cable today for the second monitor. When i pluge the original monitor in with the hdmi it has about a 2 inch black border around the screen... how do i fix this? it is full screen with the VGA connection

[The_OG_Nelta]

Auto adjust button on your monitor?