Dual Monitor question/suggestion

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Currently running E6600 4gig RAM and 8800 GT. Looking at a dual monitor setup. Wondering what monitors/res the computer will cope with comfortably.

Possibly looking at 2 22" 2233's but heard the 2253's are actually much better screens?

Any info would be helpful.
 
Yes your computer will run any dual monitors you through at it. You coould probably game on dual 22" at native with some of the detail turned off. No problem at all for Windows work.
 
Looking at the samsung.

Anyone know why the Samsung SM2243BW seems to be more expensive than the 2233BW everywhere? ,except for the 23" which i dont want :(
 
Currently running E6600 4gig RAM and 8800 GT. Looking at a dual monitor setup. Wondering what monitors/res the computer will cope with comfortably.

Possibly looking at 2 22" 2233's but heard the 2253's are actually much better screens?

Any info would be helpful.

im actually thinking about going dual screen so was wondering what two monitors 22" to get
 
As said use any two monitors you want. I have been using dual monitors for the last five ish years and couldnt live without them, luckily I have duals at work as well.

In my experience I have never seen any performance hit from using two monitors, assuming you are only gaming on one of them an use the other for TS/Ventrillo/MSN etc.

Furthermore UltraMon is a must for multi-monitor setups.
 
As said use any two monitors you want. I have been using dual monitors for the last five ish years and couldnt live without them, luckily I have duals at work as well.

In my experience I have never seen any performance hit from using two monitors, assuming you are only gaming on one of them an use the other for TS/Ventrillo/MSN etc.

Furthermore UltraMon is a must for multi-monitor setups.

what does the ultramon do mate
 
what does the ultramon do mate

All sorts actually, couldn't live without it on my (three monitor) setup. Main thing is it extends the windows taskbar across all your monitors, you can have all windows showing on each taskbar or just the ones that are open on that particular screen. Other things I use include a switch window button/shortcut key, so it automatically moves a window to a different monitor when you press it, and occasionally a stretch window button, spreads your app over all monitors. Useful for task manager, when the wider your screen the further back in history you can see network usage/RAM/CPU usage.
 
Do you need 2 graphic cards to run 3+ monitors?

Either two cards (n.b. NOT configured for Crossfire / SLI - that's just for speed on a single output); or use one or two Matrox Dual/Triple Head To Go to split your outputs (it pretends to be a super-wide monitor). These cost as much as a second graphics card, though!
 
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