Hey there, I currently have one 19' WS monitor and over the summer i'm planning on buying another 19' WS and a 22" WS and am looking for the best way to hook the monitors up to my computer.
Now I know all about the triplehead2go, however i dont want to spend another $300 on that, and it also has relatively bad widescreen support (especially for use with the 22")
So what Im looking at doing is buying a second video card. I currently have a 8800 GTS. So in general i guess my options for this would be to buy a cheap PCI video card (like a FX 5200) for one of the monitors while plugging the other two into the GTS. Or I thought that I could possibly Buy a PCI-E card, and possibly plug both secondary monitors into it and just have the 22" monitor plugged into the GTS.
My main concern about multiple video cards is any effect it would have on performance. would multiple cards make things lag? if it would a bit would it be a serious problem? also if things were to lag across say the secondary monitors plugged into a second PCI-E card, would the 22" not suffer a performance loss being plugged into the GTS all by its self? also would the fact that the 8800 is a DX10 card cause driver issues if i tried to install a card that didn't support DX10?
Thanks in advance for your help.
*Also if it helps, heres my rig*
CPU- E6600
MOBO- P5W DH Delux
GPU- Evga 8800 GTS
RAM- 2gb Mushkin XP2-6400
PSU- Mushkin XP-650
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