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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:

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

also, T&T

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

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.

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.

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:

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.

Sounds like a good deal, thanks mates

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

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.

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





Two LCD monitors - Sony and a Dell

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