GeForce 6800 Dual Display setup

Jaap74 · 15 Apr 2006 at 10:22

Am I able to use two displays but set at different resultions with my GeForce 6800 card ?

I would have my main screen at 1680 x 1050 via DVI and the second one at 1140 x 900 via D-SUB.

Can I have both screens outputting the same picture ? One screen is in the corner of my room as a dedicated TV.

saintSIN · 15 Apr 2006 at 11:28

Yes you can, I had on my old setup with 1600x1200 on the main 19" and 1024x768 on my 15". That was with a Geforce 6800Le

Jaap74 · 15 Apr 2006 at 13:01

good stuff

another question : if the cables needed for the 2nd TFT are going to be a 3 and 5 metre joined together, will this added length diminish the picture quality ?

cheers

saintSIN · 16 Apr 2006 at 12:38

I could not tell you by experience, but I guess it would not, as it sends data independently from each pin in parallel without any other data interfering, unlike RF cable where all the data is sent down one strip and with that, the greater the length, the more it would diminish the quality.

SnAzBaZ · 16 Apr 2006 at 12:44

Jaap74 said:
good stuff

another question : if the cables needed for the 2nd TFT are going to be a 3 and 5 metre joined together, will this added length diminish the picture quality ?

cheers

In my personal experience it really matters that you purchase high quality cables for this. Otherwise you will get a kind of shadow effect, where by the outside of every window is displayed about 2 - 3 times. It's hard to explain, but it looks crap.

So get a decent cable, and you should be OK, also your better off using one long cable, than joining two short ones together.

Andrew