best setup for 3 monitors

Hi,

My boss would like a TV connected to her PC which is already running 2
monitors. She would only use the TV when giving a presentation or training.

I was wondering what would be the best way to go about this - a) buy a new
video card with 3 outputs, or b) just buy another video card.

If I just need to buy another video card are there anything I need to
consider?

TIA,

H

Huwy <> wrote:
>
> My boss would like a TV connected to her PC which is already running 2
> monitors. She would only use the TV when giving a presentation or
> training.
>
> I was wondering what would be the best way to go about this - a) buy a
> new video card with 3 outputs, or b) just buy another video card.
>
> If I just need to buy another video card are there anything I need to
> consider?

Modern motherboards have PCIe slots, and a lot of full sized ATX boards have
two x16 slots, so you can install two dual-head graphics cards and then
connect up to four monitors.

Cheaper ready-built machines come with micro-ATX motherboards which normally
have only one x16 slot, and onboard graphics. Very cheap ones sometimes do
not have a x16 slot at all.

If you do not have two x16 slots on the motherboard, Matrox make a
low-powered graphics card that uses a x1 slot.

ss.

Huwy <> wrote:

>
> My boss would like a TV connected to her PC which is already running 2
> monitors. She would only use the TV when giving a presentation or
> training.
>
> I was wondering what would be the best way to go about this - a) buy a
> new video card with 3 outputs, or b) just buy another video card.
>
> If I just need to buy another video card are there anything I need to
> consider?


Oh, and another option available to you from Matrox is the DualHead2Go and
TripleHead2Go:

http://www.matrox.com/graphics/en/products/gxm/

ss.

Thanks.

So you don't think there would be a problem (slot allowing) to install a
second graphics card even if its a different make & model?

-H


"Synapse Syndrome [KGB]" <> wrote in message
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> Huwy <> wrote:
>
>>
>> My boss would like a TV connected to her PC which is already running 2
>> monitors. She would only use the TV when giving a presentation or
>> training.
>>
>> I was wondering what would be the best way to go about this - a) buy a
>> new video card with 3 outputs, or b) just buy another video card.
>>
>> If I just need to buy another video card are there anything I need to
>> consider?
>
>
> Oh, and another option available to you from Matrox is the DualHead2Go and
> TripleHead2Go:
>
> http://www.matrox.com/graphics/en/products/gxm/
>
> ss.
>

If you want to use the Aero features, both cards would have to be running
the same driver..

http://realtimesoft.com/multimon/for...asp?Topic=6770

http://www.microsoft.com/whdc/device...imonVista.mspx


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"Huwy" <> wrote in message
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> Thanks.
>
> So you don't think there would be a problem (slot allowing) to install a
> second graphics card even if its a different make & model?
>
> -H
>
>
> "Synapse Syndrome [KGB]" <> wrote in message
> news:%236$...
>> Huwy <> wrote:
>>
>>>
>>> My boss would like a TV connected to her PC which is already running 2
>>> monitors. She would only use the TV when giving a presentation or
>>> training.
>>>
>>> I was wondering what would be the best way to go about this - a) buy a
>>> new video card with 3 outputs, or b) just buy another video card.
>>>
>>> If I just need to buy another video card are there anything I need to
>>> consider?
>>
>>
>> Oh, and another option available to you from Matrox is the DualHead2Go
>> and TripleHead2Go:
>>
>> http://www.matrox.com/graphics/en/products/gxm/
>>
>> ss.
>>
>
>

You can consider buying a USB VGA adaptor like the ones from DisplayLink.
They connect to USB port on one end and connect to monitor on the other end.
The ones that I have used also allow you to use Vista Aero.

- Chirag

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"Huwy" <> wrote in message
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> Hi,
>
> My boss would like a TV connected to her PC which is already running 2
> monitors. She would only use the TV when giving a presentation or
> training.
>
> I was wondering what would be the best way to go about this - a) buy a new
> video card with 3 outputs, or b) just buy another video card.
>
> If I just need to buy another video card are there anything I need to
> consider?
>
> TIA,
>
> H