Radeon 9600 Pro, dual monitors

[generallee5686]

I just recently bought a Radeon 9600pro because ive gotten a little fed up with nvidia lately(used to be a die-hard nvidia fan).

I was wondering how u could take advantage of dual monitor support. Do i use that adapter that converts that DVI into vga(dont know if that what u call that blue plug), then plug in one monitor into the regular blue port, and the other oneinto the adapter?

[Beemer]

Yup! Then go to your Display Properties and enable the second monitor.

Cheers!

[generallee5686]

thank u so much

cant wait to try it out

[Beemer]

If you don't have a TV in your computer room, purchase a TV Tuner card.

Here's what I setup this week.

[generallee5686]

WOW!

and thats running off of one pc?

Also do u reccomend spreading them out, or putting the monitors close together?

i just was looking at their "Hydervision" software, and looked under "products supporting hydrovision" and radeon 9600 pro wasnt there......so that means i cant use that software right?

[tony_j15]

Its up to you. You only need them close togather if you strech the desktop over both.

Hydravision should work with any Radeon with dual displays.

I keep my monitors right next to eachother and use them as one large desktop. Makes doing web work and programming a lot easier.

[generallee5686]

since im running 2 video outputs at once, will my gfx cards power be cut in half?

[Beemer]

128 divided by 2 if both monitors are enabled. YUou can disable one monitor when necessary.

Cheers!

[Peter M]

The 9600 chip supports dual monitors just fine, without requiring any companion chip. CRT+TV, CRT+DVI, CRT+CRT, DVI+TV, CRT+DVI+TV are supported (2nd CRT through DVI-VGA adapter, three-output mode will have the TV cloning one of the other two).