Dual Monitors

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I am very new at this. I appreciate all the help I can get. I am planning to get another monitor for my computer and i wanted to connect them together. Now I will use one for normal use and the other one to monitor my servers. Now what do I need to start as I HAVE NO IDEA. There is only 1 port for a monitor in the back so yeah.

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For dual monitors I always thought you needed two DVI/VGA ports on your graphics card. I may be wrong though.

Welcome to the forums :)

Yep.

Tmz, is the VGA port on your motherboard (onboard)? Or are you using a graphics card of sorts, with two VGA/VGA or VGA/DVI, DVI/DVI?

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you need one of the matrox dualhead2go things... they allow you to connect multiple monitors using one VGA or DVI connection. your PC will pick it all up as 1 big monitor but then they have drivers on their side that make the PC realize there is actually 2 monitors and you can display whatever you want on the second monitor. otherwise it will just stretch your desktop across both monitors.

here is a link to a review on the product.

http://www.geek.com/articles/xyzcomputing/...ead2go-2006037/

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Woah I am confused. Ok now I only have 1 port in the back for my monitor. I dont want to open up the computer. Is there a place where I can purchase like something that goes into that port where my monitor is connected and it seperates into two. Like a splitter.

yes but it will only be a copy of what your first monitor is doing. Meaning not an extension.

To really have dual monitors you need a graphics card that supports it... Any newer one will.

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Matrox DualHead2Go. Note that it doesn't provide true multiple monitor support, it just fools your computer into thinking you have an extra large monitor attached. It would work fine for your needs.

However, it would likely be cheaper to just buy a second video card.

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Well I got a new computer I just got it so I am guessing this can support 2 monitors? Well it doesn't really matter if its one monitor I can just put all the things I need on the other monitor and work on my main one.. Is there a site that will like get my full computer specs? So whats the cheapest way to go? Thanks for all the help.

Wait I am really confused lol. Can't I just get a splitter and connect both of the monitors? My graphics card is new so I guess it can support 2 monitors?

Edit: I attached a picture of the specs of my graphics card. Can someone tell me if it supports two monitors?

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This is what I did. I just got a splitter that goes into the computer and has two outputs. So I just connected my two monitors. After I did that my computer detected it and it asked me if i want to see the same thing on the other monitor or a different thing. So now it treats the other monitor as a different one but I can drag everything to the other monitor just like one big monitor! This is what i needed and it cost me 5 bucks for the cable!

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Woah I am confused. Ok now I only have 1 port in the back for my monitor. I dont want to open up the computer. Is there a place where I can purchase like something that goes into that port where my monitor is connected and it seperates into two. Like a splitter.

here is what you need its a usb multi display device (up to 6 monitors) http://www.tigerdirect.com/applications/Se...9&CatId=467

nice monitor by the way HP's displays are the best

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