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There are video cards that have two outputs ("dual head" is what I've always heard them called) The thing I've always found to be neat about these is the fact you can set it up so when your mouse cursor reaches the edge of one monitor, it pops over to the other. Back in the day (1993) I used a Mac for desktop publishing that had a 15" color monitor and a 19" black and white monitor. (A 19" color monitor, if they even existed, would have broke the bank at that time :) I thought it was the slickest thing I had ever witnessed.
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You don't necessarily need a dual-head graphics card, although it's quite handy in terms of space-saving sometimes, you can quite easily just use an existing AGP card in your machine, and fit a second PCI graphics card into your machine (if you don't have one lying about, buy a cheap PCI 3dfx Voodoo 3 from eBay for pennies and install it, Windows 2000 and above have native drivers for the card, piece of cake). It's easy to install, sometimes much less hassle than using one card to drive two monitors, and it eases up some of the strain of having to render twice the desktop space for the graphics card, which can only be good in the long run :)
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multiple video cards or a single card that supports more than one display.
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Yes you can. You can use as many displays as you have outputs for. Simply attach one screen to each output. You can also get splitter cables to make one output into two.
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If you have XP... Fairly painless... http://support.microsoft.com/kb/307873
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In XP Pro, I can get 2 screens on one PC/ 1 card, but only if they are both analog or only one is analog. both set to digital results in only one working. :-( With adjustment both have same clarity, at least to my old eyes. 680i, 8800gt. q6600, 2 Hanns-G 22" (HDMI and 15pin only.) If both can be digital, please tell me how.
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