Windows 7 dual graphics cards for 3 monitors

Harbz · 23 Oct 2009 at 17:41

Hello,

I've read that Win7 supports dual graphics cards. I can get hold of a spare ATI 3650 PCI-e card. Anyone know if I add this to my system :

1.) My Nvidia 260GTX will still work fine for games with no loss of performance.
2.) I can attach another 2 monitors to the new 3650 so I can have 3 screens in total? (I don't need 3 screens in games, just for desktop use).

Thanks.

ArtificialFoxx · 23 Oct 2009 at 17:44

This should work, yes.

Engram · 23 Oct 2009 at 19:05

Ultramon will be useful when you're using 3 screens. You can configure it so that when you double-click its icon in the system tray, it turns off two of your screens. Very useful when you're about to play a game.

http://www.realtimesoft.com/ultramon/

Harbz · 23 Oct 2009 at 21:42

Just tried it and it works fine. Running a Nvidia 260gtx for my main monitor, and 2 aditional monitors off an ATI 3650!

Burnsy2023 · 23 Oct 2009 at 22:05

Engram said:
Ultramon will be useful when you're using 3 screens. You can configure it so that when you double-click its icon in the system tray, it turns off two of your screens. Very useful when you're about to play a game.

http://www.realtimesoft.com/ultramon/

If you're using Win 7 look at display fusion instead.

Harbz · 23 Oct 2009 at 22:14

Burnsy2023 said:
If you're using Win 7 look at display fusion instead.

Yep, thats what im using.

Aod · 24 Oct 2009 at 10:52

does display fusion support the extended taskbar like Ultramon did in XP?

oxygene · 24 Oct 2009 at 10:57

ultramon has a win7 setup now and works fine. whats better about display fusion?

Burnsy2023 · 24 Oct 2009 at 13:26

Aod said:
does display fusion support the extended taskbar like Ultramon did in XP?

Yes

oxygene said:
ultramon has a win7 setup now and works fine. whats better about display fusion?

Does all the things ultramon does but is cheaper

Aod · 25 Oct 2009 at 10:36

Burnsy2023 said:
Yes

Sold!

iviv · 25 Oct 2009 at 12:32

Burnsy2023 said:
Does all the things ultramon does but is cheaper

Except for multi-monitor screensaver support. But that's not worth the extra cost

Burnsy2023 · 25 Oct 2009 at 12:40

iviv said:
Except for multi-monitor screensaver support. But that's not worth the extra cost

Windows 7 seems to do some of that out the box anyway.

Aod · 25 Oct 2009 at 14:48

Burnsy2023 said:
Windows 7 seems to do some of that out the box anyway.

as did Vista and XP... :confused:

Burnsy2023 · 25 Oct 2009 at 14:50

Aod said:
as did Vista and XP...

It was a bit temperamental in Vista for me.

Aod · 25 Oct 2009 at 23:15

Burnsy2023 said:
It was a bit temperamental in Vista for me.

i must admit, my multiscreen experience with vista was relatively limited (my Desktop only ran it for about a week or so before i went back to XP Pro x64) but during that time i never noticed problems with multi-screen-screensavers.
some (read: many) 3rd party screensavers didn't work on more than one screen but all the microsoft ones did.

obviously, they worked fine in XP x64 and they work fine now in 7.

<Dubz> · 28 Oct 2009 at 23:59

could anyone answer a problem for me, i have 2 screens. My left screen is off to the side at an angle, my primary screen is strsight in front on me for games etc.

The problem i'm having since going to win7 is that i cant set the left screen as the first monitor, it always defaults the primary as first so when i try to scroll across across to the next screen i ahve to go the wrong way =/ ,really annoying and i didn't have this issue in vista or the win7 beta

Rich_L · 29 Oct 2009 at 00:01

IN the monitor properties don't you just drag one monitor to the other side or something and it re-arranges them?

<Dubz> · 29 Oct 2009 at 00:08

omg, i had no idea you could just drag them like that, that worked!

cokecan · 29 Oct 2009 at 13:07

Not sure how useful this is, but could be to some people: Windows key + P

I've got 2 TFT's and a PJ connected to my system and I basically just used ultramon for its profiles, but win key + P lets me switch between the 2 TFT's and the PJ perfectly