Anyone recommend cheap dual head video card?

[foxj77]

Hi there,

I am trying to track down a dual head video card, either pci or agp. I
bought one from ebuyer but it didnt support two seperate monitors. All
it could do was clone the desktop and not use a seperate desktop.

I am not too fussed about what spec the card is. I have got a couple
of vga monitors and i am happy to go with a vga/dvi combination as long
as the dvi connector works with an adapter.

I need to be able to buy it online from somewhere like dabs, ebuyer
etc. I've been searching through ebuyer all day and the specifications
aren't that helpful!

Any tips gratefully received. I've already bought one card that didn't
work and don't want to make the same mistake again! Looked pretty
stupid!!!!!

Thanks

John

 

[Brett I. Holcomb]

You might look at BFG's products. I have the AGP 6600.

 

[Loren Pechtel]

Hi there,

I am trying to track down a dual head video card, either pci or agp. I
bought one from ebuyer but it didnt support two seperate monitors. All
it could do was clone the desktop and not use a seperate desktop.

I am not too fussed about what spec the card is. I have got a couple
of vga monitors and i am happy to go with a vga/dvi combination as long
as the dvi connector works with an adapter.

I need to be able to buy it online from somewhere like dabs, ebuyer
etc. I've been searching through ebuyer all day and the specifications
aren't that helpful!

Any tips gratefully received. I've already bought one card that didn't
work and don't want to make the same mistake again! Looked pretty
stupid!!!!!

I've used numerous PNY cards over the years in various machines. Most
of them support two monitors. They have both AGP and PCI versions of
the cards.

 

[Richard Urban]

NVIDIA 5200. About as cheap as they come and supports 2 VGA monitors.
Available in AGP or PCI.

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Regards,

Richard Urban
Microsoft MVP Windows Shell/User
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Quote from George Ankner:
If you knew as much as you think you know,
You would realize that you don't know what you thought you knew!

 

[foxj77]

I had a Point of View Nvidia FX 5200. It did support two monitors but
they were just two clones of each other. Couldn't get it to split them
up to two seperate desktops

I'm looking at buying this one:
Pny Verto Geforce 6 6200/agp8x 128mb Ddr2 Memory With 1xvga And 1xdvi
Output - Ships With 1xdvi-vga Convertor Inc. And Tv-out Cable

http://www.nvnews.net/previews/geforce_6200/index.shtml

Hopefully it will do the job

Thanks

John

 

[Richard Urban]

My daughter-in-law is using the 5200 for just such purposes.

She keeps open a tutorial for Photoshop on one monitor and has the Photoshop
program open on the other. It's an easy way to learn.

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Regards,

Richard Urban
Microsoft MVP Windows Shell/User
(For email, remove the obvious from my address)

Quote from George Ankner:
If you knew as much as you think you know,
You would realize that you don't know what you thought you knew!