Dual screen setup - Help needed

Dwbreeze1982 · 31 Aug 2006 at 21:21

I currently have a lge lx40 L1740b monitor and i would like to buy another one but sadly lg have upgraded their monitor panels so the new model has higher resolution. If i bought a second one would it be hard to balance the resolution so i could have dual screen setup.

Thanks

fobose · 31 Aug 2006 at 22:09

So your lg lx40 L1740b has a 1280x1024 resolution, but the newer models have 1600x1200 or?

You can use dual monitor setups with different sized resolutions, I used to use 1280x1024 with 1024x768:

daven1986 · 1 Sep 2006 at 01:26

personally i hate using dual screens with different resulutions - just feels odd.

fobose · 1 Sep 2006 at 06:55

Yeah it got very annoying, when I would switch tasks over on to the lower res I found I had to keep scrolling across all the time!

Torch [P4] · 1 Sep 2006 at 14:16

*** stand is that your using for your tfts m8?

fobose · 1 Sep 2006 at 15:44

Unbranded, custom stand. A friends dad built it hehe. Looks really good with my 2 dell's on it;

Xinn · 1 Sep 2006 at 17:28

Aye that looks rather sexy to say the least. Wish I could afford somethign like that with graphics card to support them both

fobose · 2 Sep 2006 at 18:08

Well any graphics card with 2 outputs would do, I only have a 6600gt at the moment (not ready to buy a whole new system just so I can get a dual dvi PCI-E card).

spr33ness · 3 Sep 2006 at 17:18

fobose said:
Unbranded, custom stand. A friends dad built it hehe. Looks really good with my 2 dell's on it;

I really like that stand, does the guy sell them at all? Do they swivel at all or are they in that fixed position?

I also see you have a Nebula DigiTV card

NathanE · 3 Sep 2006 at 17:22

My dad made 5. Last one is gathering dust at the moment

Made 'em years ago but it seems to be only recently that people have expressed interest.

Here's some pics of their making:

fobose · 3 Sep 2006 at 17:26

spr33ness said:
I also see you have a Nebula DigiTV card

Could you tell that from the little remote reciever? Oh and they are on ball joints so they will swivel all over but you have to tighten screws which locks them in position

fobose · 3 Sep 2006 at 17:27

NathanE said:
My dad made 5. Last one is gathering dust at the moment

Now for a new design..

spr33ness · 3 Sep 2006 at 17:32

fobose said:
Could you tell that from the little remote reciever? Oh and they are on ball joints so they will swivel all over but you have to tighten screws which locks them in position

The IR reciever and the remote

NathanE, name a price! Will it support two ViewSonic VX2025's? I'm not sure about the size difference compared to the Dells. The 'wall mount' of the VX2025's is 'VESA® FPMPMI 100mm x 100mm' (if that helps at all). I can't seem to get my screens postitioned *exactly* how I want them at the moment.

fobose · 3 Sep 2006 at 17:35

Mine has 2x 20" dell WS on it, and the little "arms" at the back are not even fully extended, I had them fully extended to start with so I could line them up perfectly and there was about 6" gap inbetween the 2 monitors I think !

Oh and the stands support VESA 75mm and 100mm!

spr33ness · 3 Sep 2006 at 21:20

fobose said:
Mine has 2x 20" dell WS on it, and the little "arms" at the back are not even fully extended, I had them fully extended to start with so I could line them up perfectly and there was about 6" gap inbetween the 2 monitors I think !

Oh and the stands support VESA 75mm and 100mm!

Gimme gimme!

Dwbreeze1982 · 4 Sep 2006 at 23:41

thanks everyone for your help. i have now scraped this plan as i have just brought two lg 1780q for £300. so i am now looking for some monster wallpapers to use on them if anyone can help on this it would much be appreciated.

Thanks

fobose · 5 Sep 2006 at 06:56

Dwbreeze1982 said:
thanks everyone for your help. i have now scraped this plan as i have just brought two lg 1780q for £300. so i am now looking for some monster wallpapers to use on them if anyone can help on this it would much be appreciated.

Thanks

Try here: http://www.mandolux.com/

schnipps · 5 Sep 2006 at 15:45

When you have the screen stretched across the 2 how do you get it so when you play a game it comes up on the primary screen as normal instead of loading onto both screens or stretching the game across them both. This is with an x1800xt using catalyst control centre.

fobose · 5 Sep 2006 at 22:56

I dont think you can. Dont stretch the screen across both monitors and use ultramon so you can get taskbar on your secondary monitor