Back to Forums








View Full Version : Dual monitor (WinXP)


d000hg
March 4th, 2007, 12:04 PM
My new PC has a Radeon X1300 card which I can only assume is a PCI-X card. Unfortunately it doesn't have two monitor outputs, just a single VGA output.

I want to be able to support two monitors. I wonder if I'm best buying a card with two outputs, or adding another card to the existing one?

Can you recommend some cards suitable? I should make it clear I don't play games on this PC so I don't need an amazing GPU. I don't want a card which uses my system memory though, I'm guessing a reasonably basic 256Mb card would be quite cheap?

efc
March 4th, 2007, 16:44 PM
A few choices:

PCI Card (http://www.tigerdirect.com/applications/SearchTools/item-details.asp?EdpNo=2148789&Sku=P56-6806)

PCI X Dual DVI (http://www.tigerdirect.com/applications/SearchTools/item-details.asp?EdpNo=2412163&CatId=1560)

PCI X Dual DVI with Crossfire technology (http://www.tigerdirect.com/applications/SearchTools/item-details.asp?EdpNo=2918893&CatId=1560)

Another possibility is to use a KVM switch to quickly switch from one CPU to another. This is the one I am using.

Zonet 4 port KVM (http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16817406016)