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Basic desing questions on building a new dual monitor system
I'm planning to build a new system centered around dual 22" LCDs - one
in landscape and one in portrait mode. I'm fairly decent on PCs in general, but years ago I decided to avoid things graphic since I'm not a gamer. My penance for that is I now have to do some remedial reading. I would like to get two things from this post: 1) Is this a feasible goal? Can 1 card (or 2?) drive both a 1680x1050 and a 1050x1680 monitor? No sense chasing the impossible dream. 2) I would appreciate references to sites that have general and/or moderately technical tutorials or reference materials so I can bootstrap my knowledge level. I don't have a decent understanding of the interdependencies of the monitor(s), video card(s) and the OS (probably XP2 Pro). I will appreciate any responses. Don't waste your time with detailed technical explanations, at best I'd probably only partially comprehend. Those conversations can wait until I can form decent questions :-) ---- Pete Gebel pfgebel(deletethis)@crisperiodcom Have the best day possible - all things considered |
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Basic desing questions on building a new dual monitor system
"tanstafl" wrote in message ... I'm planning to build a new system centered around dual 22" LCDs - one in landscape and one in portrait mode. I'm fairly decent on PCs in general, but years ago I decided to avoid things graphic since I'm not a gamer. My penance for that is I now have to do some remedial reading. I would like to get two things from this post: 1) Is this a feasible goal? Can 1 card (or 2?) drive both a 1680x1050 and a 1050x1680 monitor? No sense chasing the impossible dream. 2) I would appreciate references to sites that have general and/or moderately technical tutorials or reference materials so I can bootstrap my knowledge level. I don't have a decent understanding of the interdependencies of the monitor(s), video card(s) and the OS (probably XP2 Pro). I will appreciate any responses. Don't waste your time with detailed technical explanations, at best I'd probably only partially comprehend. Those conversations can wait until I can form decent questions :-) ---- Pete Gebel pfgebel(deletethis)@crisperiodcom Have the best day possible - all things considered I've been running two 19" monitors on my own computer for over 4 years now. CCC will handle the resolutions and rotation you are interested in with no problems. The biggest problem is the initial setup, simple, but can be confusing. At first, both monitors will be active, but when windows starts only the primary monitor will be active. Once you "extend" your desktop onto the second monitor in CCC it will be active from that time forward. You will have to set the resolutions and rotations at that point. It's all their in CCC. Three years ago I had problems with some programs not working with two monitors, some would not show drop-down menus or video on the second monitor. Some would not start-up on the second monitor. However, this seems to have cleared up the past year after updating my programs. I think more and more people are taking advantage of two monitors that all these high-end graphics cards can provide and the software industry is answering a need. One area of problem has been with windows and background desktop images. Their are programs that will correct this problem, allowing a single image to span across multiple monitors. I finally went with a program called WidowBlinds which takes care of this and a multiple of other features for me. Oh - screen savers, not all screen savers run across multiple monitors. It's fun when they do. William |
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Basic desing questions on building a new dual monitor system
tanstafl wrote:
I'm planning to build a new system centered around dual 22" LCDs - one in landscape and one in portrait mode. I'm fairly decent on PCs in general, but years ago I decided to avoid things graphic since I'm not a gamer. My penance for that is I now have to do some remedial reading. I would like to get two things from this post: 1) Is this a feasible goal? Can 1 card (or 2?) drive both a 1680x1050 and a 1050x1680 monitor? No sense chasing the impossible dream. why would you want one in landscape and one in portrait? you should be able to do this with 1 normal video card with 2 outputs i use dual head (1 video card) and i tested turning my main display into portrait mode just for a laugh as long as you buy ati or nvidia video card, you should be fine avoid crappy graphics chipsets like intel, you normaly find em on cheapo desktops, and laptops, just stick with those 2 brands to( hopefully) save your sanity |
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Basic desing questions on building a new dual monitor system
On Mon, 28 Jan 2008 15:07:48 -0800, "William"
wrote: "tanstafl" wrote in message .. . I'm planning to build a new system centered around dual 22" LCDs - one in landscape and one in portrait mode. I'm fairly decent on PCs in general, but years ago I decided to avoid things graphic since I'm not a gamer. My penance for that is I now have to do some remedial reading. I would like to get two things from this post: 1) Is this a feasible goal? Can 1 card (or 2?) drive both a 1680x1050 and a 1050x1680 monitor? No sense chasing the impossible dream. 2) I would appreciate references to sites that have general and/or moderately technical tutorials or reference materials so I can bootstrap my knowledge level. I don't have a decent understanding of the interdependencies of the monitor(s), video card(s) and the OS (probably XP2 Pro). I will appreciate any responses. Don't waste your time with detailed technical explanations, at best I'd probably only partially comprehend. Those conversations can wait until I can form decent questions :-) ---- Pete Gebel pfgebel(deletethis)@crisperiodcom Have the best day possible - all things considered I've been running two 19" monitors on my own computer for over 4 years now. CCC will handle the resolutions and rotation you are interested in with no problems. The biggest problem is the initial setup, simple, but can be confusing. At first, both monitors will be active, but when windows starts only the primary monitor will be active. Once you "extend" your desktop onto the second monitor in CCC it will be active from that time forward. You will have to set the resolutions and rotations at that point. It's all their in CCC. Three years ago I had problems with some programs not working with two monitors, some would not show drop-down menus or video on the second monitor. Some would not start-up on the second monitor. However, this seems to have cleared up the past year after updating my programs. I think more and more people are taking advantage of two monitors that all these high-end graphics cards can provide and the software industry is answering a need. One area of problem has been with windows and background desktop images. Their are programs that will correct this problem, allowing a single image to span across multiple monitors. I finally went with a program called WidowBlinds which takes care of this and a multiple of other features for me. Oh - screen savers, not all screen savers run across multiple monitors. It's fun when they do. William William; My apologies for the long delay, I was off my feed for awhile and haven't been online. Thanks for the overview and your experiences - it gives me some structure and framework to guide my remedial reading on the topic. I hope you'll still be around in a month or two when I'm able to start asking some coherent questions. ---- Pete Gebel pfgebel(deletethis)@crisperiodcom Have the best day possible - all things considered |
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Basic desing questions on building a new dual monitor system
On Wed, 30 Jan 2008 11:46:20 +0000, Geoff
wrote: tanstafl wrote: I'm planning to build a new system centered around dual 22" LCDs - one in landscape and one in portrait mode. I'm fairly decent on PCs in general, but years ago I decided to avoid things graphic since I'm not a gamer. My penance for that is I now have to do some remedial reading. I would like to get two things from this post: 1) Is this a feasible goal? Can 1 card (or 2?) drive both a 1680x1050 and a 1050x1680 monitor? No sense chasing the impossible dream. why would you want one in landscape and one in portrait? That goes to assumptions I've made that probably should be examined. My idea was that some apps like .doc and .pdf would be a natural fit for portrait mode. I would expect that the 1050 horizontal would accommodate 80+ character lines in a font size that would be comfortable to my aging eyes, while the 1680 vertical would allow for full page displays. Conversely, landscape should be friendly to spreadsheets, Opera, Agent etc. But I've never had LCD displays before - do you see any subtle gotchas above? you should be able to do this with 1 normal video card with 2 outputs i use dual head (1 video card) and i tested turning my main display into portrait mode just for a laugh as long as you buy ati or nvidia video card, you should be fine avoid crappy graphics chipsets like intel, you normaly find em on cheapo desktops, and laptops, just stick with those 2 brands to( hopefully) save your sanity As I slowly dip into reading up about graphics, hanging onto sanity is an increasingly important goal :-) I'm a long way from hardware selection at this point, but I hear you about cheapo stuff. Stability (usually equates with low heat) and function are the criteria. A few bucks at build time are unimportant amortized over the 2-4 years I'll be using the system. ---- Pete Gebel pfgebel(deletethis)@crisperiodcom Have the best day possible - all things considered |
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