Dual monitor

Post by **mrd** » Mon Jan 29, 2007 9:33 pm

Going to be getting another monitor soon, I'm sick of fucking trying to use Cubase with one screen. Even on 1280*1024 it's a major fuck around. I was just wondering.. is it mandatory to get the exact same monitor as your first one, or is it just recommended due to the colour differences, etc, etc? Also, I was thinking of SLI-ing my cards in the near future.. how does this work (does it even?) with 2 monitors? One card per monitor, or does one card do both? :icon34:

Post by **MKJ** » Mon Jan 29, 2007 9:36 pm

you cant sli and dualmonitor at the same time
at least, thats how it was when sli was first introduced

also, T&T

Post by **mrd** » Mon Jan 29, 2007 9:39 pm

Fuck t&t... I'll just get another of the same monitor I have now and fuck SLI.. I don't play games enough to warrant it. Dual monitor is more important to me

Post by **Foo** » Mon Jan 29, 2007 9:40 pm

Yep, still can't SLi with 2 monitors. Might be able to do it with ATI Crossfire. Fuck knows.

I'm running an LCD and a CRT, and the colour difference is very obvious. Not a big deal unless you're working in visual media. Or you REALLY like a particular shade of mauve. Whatever.

Dual-screen gaming is a pretty dead horse, so don't hold any notion of some kind of gaming nirvana from having 2 monitors. Flight sims and a couple of random games here and there are appropriate, 99.9% of games either don't make sense on dual monitors (FPS games crosshair in the middle = doh) or don't support it anyway.

Post by **mrd** » Mon Jan 29, 2007 9:42 pm

Don't care about games, I'd turn one screen off when I played games. I'm more concerned about doing audio editing in Cubase. I have to keep track of like 10 different little windows and a buncha VST instruments, etc. and on one screen it gets fucking cluttered very fast.

Post by **MKJ** » Mon Jan 29, 2007 9:45 pm

well for cubase you dont care if the green in the equalizer is less green on the other screen, rite?

i used to do the same for photoshop, have all the panels on a 15" screen and the actual canvas on the 21".
i still kinda think 15" is enough for a second monitor anyways. its not like i need the extra desktop space :icon32:

Post by **Foo** » Mon Jan 29, 2007 9:57 pm

mrd wrote:Don't care about games, I'd turn one screen off when I played games. I'm more concerned about doing audio editing in Cubase. I have to keep track of like 10 different little windows and a buncha VST instruments, etc. and on one screen it gets fucking cluttered very fast.

Then yeah, grab an extra monitor (hell, grab 2 old CRTs for £20 a piece) and maybe also buy a PCI dual-output graphics card.

That way, you can hook your main monitor up to the high performance PCI-e card, and run extra screen space off a PCI card.

As long as you keep the graphics cards from the same vendor I believe this would work well.

Post by **mrd** » Mon Jan 29, 2007 9:58 pm

Sounds like a good deal, thanks mates

Post by **Pete** » Mon Jan 29, 2007 10:26 pm

I’ve been wanting to use two monitors for awhile. At the time, there were the Matrox cards but now there are these and many more…

http://cgi.ebay.ca/Nvidia-GeForce-FX520 ... dZViewItem

http://cgi.ebay.ca/ATI-Radeon-9000-64MB ... dZViewItem

Post by **Lieutenant Dan** » Tue Jan 30, 2007 12:32 am

Pete wrote:I’ve been wanting to use two monitors for awhile. At the time, there were the Matrox cards but now there are these and many more… http://cgi.ebay.ca/Nvidia-GeForce-FX520 ... dZViewItem http://cgi.ebay.ca/ATI-Radeon-9000-64MB ... dZViewItem

Aren't both of those cards pretty dated now?

The nVidia one is a 5200..

I dunno about that ATi card.

Post by **Denz** » Tue Jan 30, 2007 1:39 am

I have two Monitors and I run two video Cards, Great for what I do at work.

Two LCD monitors - Sony and a Dell

Post by **FragaGeddon** » Tue Jan 30, 2007 5:34 am

You can always get a really cheap PCI card and use that for your second monitor.