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Is my GFX card suitable?

azibux1

azibux1

azibux1

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Hi,

I'm currently using a Dell U2412M 1920 x 1200 LED monitor and a Sony 40" 1920 x 1080 TV both connected to my GTX 460 1GB

I am thinking about possibly moving the TV into another room, and then getting another U2412M.

Will my GFX card be suitable to run two U2412M 1920 x 1200 monitors? It has two DVI connections (same connection as U2412M), but I mean will it have the 'power' to run them?

As it is currently working fine (with TV and monitor) I am assuming that it will be fine, just wanted to check


Hope you can help, :D
 
azibux1 said:
Hi,

I'm currently using a Dell U2412M 1920 x 1200 LED monitor and a Sony 40" 1920 x 1080 TV both connected to my GTX 460 1GB

I am thinking about possibly moving the TV into another room, and then getting another U2412M.

Will my GFX card be suitable to run two U2412M 1920 x 1200 monitors? It has two DVI connections (same connection as U2412M), but I mean will it have the 'power' to run them?

As it is currently working fine (with TV and monitor) I am assuming that it will be fine, just wanted to check


Hope you can help, :D
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It should all work OK.
 
I assume you don't want to use both monitors for gaming as that's a bit of a non-starter.

For gaming you want to use 1 or 3 monitors and with Nvidia you need 2 GPU's in SLI to run 3.
 
jamesfreddie said:
It should all work OK.
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Thanks :)

Surveyor said:
I assume you don't want to use both monitors for gaming as that's a bit of a non-starter.

For gaming you want to use 1 or 3 monitors and with Nvidia you need 2 GPU's in SLI to run 3.
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Yeah, sorry, forgot to mention that, I'm not going for a gaming setup. I play 90% of games on my PS3, I only occasionally use my PC for gaming, and even then I only play games like Metro 2033, APB Reloaded, Skyrim (not very often) etc, if I do play games, I will just use one of the monitors, rather than both.

I will just be using the two monitors for general use, web browsing, college work, programming etc. Then if I'm playing a game, I will just use one monitor for the game, and the other for general use.


Will that be OK?


Thanks for your help, :D
 
I'm getting my second U2412M delivered in the morning hopefully and just wanted to check, it would be OK to have all 3 screens (two U2412M's and one Sony 40" TV) all connected at the same time? Or not?


Hope you can help :)
 
ThePengu1n said:
I'm pretty sure you can't output to 3 displays with one Nvidia card regardless of whether or not you're running them in surround.
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Thanks for confirming

I just re-read my thread and Surveyor posted this:

For gaming you want to use 1 or 3 monitors and with Nvidia you need 2 GPU's in SLI to run 3
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I didn't read it properly, lol

Sorry
 
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