SCORE!!!!! a new monitor!!!
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lucky bugger lol. sounds like a nice setup.
joxley1990
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I have the laptop, (15.4") then a 17" TFT, I like using Multiple Monitors. Nice find..
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Rubber314Chicken
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yeah, it is sooo nice.
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nice i remember my first find twas a ol ibm pentium 486 75mhz 32mb ram and a 1gb hard drive with 8mb rage xl gpu ran win 98 like a dream back in the days was about 2004 i think
then shortly after that died i found a 7.6 gb hd in an entry(alleyway) one day doing my paper round took it home plugged it in my desktop which back then was a p2 with 256mb ram and a 20gig hd it worked so i put my music folder on it and it still works to this day , i also had the dell ultrascan 14" from the ibm comp i found till about a month back when i replaced it with a bigger crt
then shortly after that died i found a 7.6 gb hd in an entry(alleyway) one day doing my paper round took it home plugged it in my desktop which back then was a p2 with 256mb ram and a 20gig hd it worked so i put my music folder on it and it still works to this day , i also had the dell ultrascan 14" from the ibm comp i found till about a month back when i replaced it with a bigger crt
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Nice. pics?
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pics:
I've never understood how these dual monitor things work
I've got a sparkle 7600GT video card, and a 19" TFT monitor. I was planning on upgrading to 22" and selling my 19" but as you guys are saying dual monitors are so awesome, I might as well keep my 19" and go dual
But how does it work??? Lol
Do you just get 2 DVI cables and connect both of them to the back of your graphics card? (My video card has 2 DVI ports at the back)
At the moment my 19" is hooked up to my graphics card with a VGA cable using a VGA to DVI adapter like this one
http://www.tvcables.co.uk/images/items/vga-to-dvi.jpg - The bottom one
Am I better off getting a DVI to DVI cable for my dual monitors, or using adapters, or is there no difference?
I'm a bit of a n00b when it comes to these dual monitor thing, I used to be really computer savvy but when all this new stuff came out, I kind of drifted off....lol
Also, once I've connected the dual monitors, how does it work? Say can I play a game on one monitor and talk on msn on the other? How does the computer know which monitor to "work on" if you know what I mean
Any help is appreciated ....
I've got a sparkle 7600GT video card, and a 19" TFT monitor. I was planning on upgrading to 22" and selling my 19" but as you guys are saying dual monitors are so awesome, I might as well keep my 19" and go dual
But how does it work??? Lol
Do you just get 2 DVI cables and connect both of them to the back of your graphics card? (My video card has 2 DVI ports at the back)
At the moment my 19" is hooked up to my graphics card with a VGA cable using a VGA to DVI adapter like this one
http://www.tvcables.co.uk/images/items/vga-to-dvi.jpg - The bottom one
Am I better off getting a DVI to DVI cable for my dual monitors, or using adapters, or is there no difference?
I'm a bit of a n00b when it comes to these dual monitor thing, I used to be really computer savvy but when all this new stuff came out, I kind of drifted off....lol
Also, once I've connected the dual monitors, how does it work? Say can I play a game on one monitor and talk on msn on the other? How does the computer know which monitor to "work on" if you know what I mean
Any help is appreciated ....
