I'm chasing down a couple of options here... Basically, I want to get a dual monitor setup, with one main monitor and the other doing some monitor use and some TV use. The various monitor/TV combos like the Samsung SM-225MD are an obvious choice... But that'd leave me in the weird situation of having my secondary monitor being much nicer than my Belinea 22", which would have to be the main one.
I'd really much rather get a nicer (24"?) main monitor and relegate the 22" to secondary/TV duties... Which would mean if I want to use it as a TV, it'd have to run through the PC of course. I don't know an awful lot about this, to be honest, but TV cards seem pretty inexpensive these days. But then, I wonder how much of a performance hit I'll take if I'm gaming and running the TV through the PC simultaneously? That's my main concern.
Option 3... I can throw together a media PC out of spare parts and fit a TV card to it, and just run 2 PCs.
Obviously this is a wee bit handwavey at the moment, I'm just trying to work out the basics but this is stuff I've not done before so any help (or good reading!) would be a huge help...
Cheers folks.
I'd really much rather get a nicer (24"?) main monitor and relegate the 22" to secondary/TV duties... Which would mean if I want to use it as a TV, it'd have to run through the PC of course. I don't know an awful lot about this, to be honest, but TV cards seem pretty inexpensive these days. But then, I wonder how much of a performance hit I'll take if I'm gaming and running the TV through the PC simultaneously? That's my main concern.
Option 3... I can throw together a media PC out of spare parts and fit a TV card to it, and just run 2 PCs.
Obviously this is a wee bit handwavey at the moment, I'm just trying to work out the basics but this is stuff I've not done before so any help (or good reading!) would be a huge help...
Cheers folks.
Thanks for that, very helpful!