Driving dual screens question

[maby66]

'Lo
Although I have 2 TFT's in my office, I only have one connected to my games machine due to me running 2*6800GT's in SLI - therefore it will only allow me to use a single display.
I'm considering an upgrade (possibly a 7950GTX if I can get it cheap enough) and wondered about driving 2 displays from this card.
Ideally, I will upgrade 1 TFT to a 22" widescreen 1680*1050, which will be my main screen for gaming, and then have a 17" 1280*1024 as aprt of an extended desktop.
When gaming I'd like to run the game in full screen on the widescreen with other apps such as TS/xfire on the secondary screen.
Is this workable?
If I cannot do it on the 7950, can I do it on another card?

Cheers

 

[Mud]

You can do it, but if you try to use the apps on the secondary screen then the game will typically minimise, and some (poorly coded) games go a bit wonky when you try to switch back to them. Vista improves matters somewhat, but I'll assume you're on XP. You could do all this on a single 6800GT, but as you've mentioned, SLi doesn't allow it (unless I'm not up-to-date on SLi).