What do I need for a 2 screen set up?

londonman81

I've been lucky enough to be allowed to take home my old 15inch flat screen monitor from work as we are getting new 19 inch screens soon.

At home I am currently on a single 17inch flast screen setup.

I would like to be able to use the smaller one from work along side my current screen.

What hardware/software do I need to have in order to be able to do this?? I assume I would need a dual card? And what happens to my current single scrren card?

Please bear in mind that I don't want to spend a fortune on getting this set up - if a cheap dual card will do then thats fine by me.


Thanks!

L

scotty

Many modern graphics cards offer two outputs. The outputs can be DVI or analogue. If your monitors are analogue you will need to get an adaptor to allow it to connect.

You should not need to spend a fortune on a graphics card. I bought a card for my daughter for ~£28 (ebuyer.com) and it had 1 DVI and 1 analogue connector.