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Two 20" monitors

addylad

addylad

addylad

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Hi,

Say I want to use two 20" monitors, side by side. How powerful would the graphics card have to be? Uses would be music, spreadsheets and other office work, quite a bit of photo-editing and movie-watching, and some gaming but not much. Looking for one as cheap as possible, could anyone suggest some?

Thanks.
 
Will you be playing games across the two monitors? If not then you don't need a very powerful card at all. Just get one that will run whatever games you play. If the second screen is just showing the desktop/internet browser while you're playing games then it won't make a noticeable difference to fps. Same goes for films, unless you'll be watching hd clips across both screens (which will look retarded anyway) then it doesn't need to be that powerful.
 
Gaming is not essential, budget is more important. The main tasks will be office work, Web design, music production and photo-editing. Nothing very intensive. What would you recommend (don't want to go overkill, as I'm on a tight budget!)?
 
I think I'm right in saying that almost any graphics card with two outputs would be powerfull enough to do this.

If you plan on gaming though, thats another matter.

EDIT: read your second post
 
Can't you just use a standard DVI cable with a HDMI socket?
I thought the way it works is: if you use a HDMI cable & connection, the computer detects that and transfers HDMI. If you use a DVI cable & connection on the monitor, and have a HDMI connection on the card, it outputs DVI.
Can anyone confirm or deny that?
 
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