Dual Screen Question

dalehitchy1 · 1 Mar 2016 at 12:40

I have a 23" monitor sitting in my garage not being used. It only has vga (but somehow supports 1080p... didnt think this was possible until i read up on it)

Anyway, it would be useful to use for work as a secondary display as i sometimes work from home. Before I go and fish it out.... will i run into any issues as my current monitor is a BenQ G2420HDBL dvi 1080p monitor - will i lose quality, or run at the lowest refresh rate if the Acer one is lower via vga? I do game on the PC and dont want to loose quality.

Model Number is: Acer X233H 23inch (although for some reason it lists it as having DVI, it definatly does not. It's from PC world, so this is probably why)

Raumarik · 1 Mar 2016 at 12:44

Most operating systems and graphics cards will simply add the second monitor running at independent resolution and refresh rates without any issue.

dalehitchy1 · 1 Mar 2016 at 12:45

Halfmad said:
Most operating systems and graphics cards will simply add the second monitor running at independent resolution and refresh rates without any issue.

great exactly what i wanted to know

Cern · 1 Mar 2016 at 14:44

I currently have a matched pair of monitors both using DVI. But for a while I ran with one DVI and one VGA (although I used a DVI-VGA converter to connect to the GPU) with different resolutions. Win 7 handled it just fine, although moving the mouse from one screen to the other was a bit odd because of the change in resolution. But if both of your monitors are 1080p you shouldn't have that problem.