Dual Video

2007-04-22 03:05:24

#1

T.Pike: 99 Problems . . .; +187|6752|Pennsyltucky

This question is more for future reference than what I'm going to do today or this week.

System is a Dell Dimension E510 (I know, I know, but I needed to finance the new system last year).

Dual Core Pentium 4 processor @ 3 Ghz

1 Gig Ram

ATI PCI-Express Video (forget 256 or 512)

260 gig HD

Now I have an older ATI regular PCI video card I'm not using. If I had a spare monitor could I slap the old PCI video card into my machine & get dual video?

What I would like to do is run BF2 on my primary video but keep Teamspeak & Xfire up on the secondary video.

Right now I play with mostly low settings except for HIGH Geometries & something else. Shadows etc on low, View distance 100%.

Would this set-up work?

BTW -> will upgrade RAM before anything else.

2007-04-22 03:58:59

#2

max: Vela Incident; +1,652|7037|NYC / Hamburg

it should work, although such set ups have been known to cause problems. Just try it. What do you have to loose? Also you should have a second port on your primary gfx card into which you can plug in a 2nd monitor.

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2007-04-22 13:17:45

#3

Milk.org: Bringing Sexy Back; +270|7246|UK

Yeh your current graphics card should have 2 ports on there for a 2nd monitor this way you could run your other apps on your secondary monitor like I do.

2007-04-24 22:09:21

#4

T.Pike: 99 Problems . . .; +187|6752|Pennsyltucky

DOH !

You two are correct, there IS a 2nd video port on the card.

I thought that was for hooking up a different TYPE of monitor, didn't realize I could run both off one card.

Thanks & Karma.

T.Pike

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