Quake3World

Ok I have some parts here that I have come up with to upgrade my Work comptuer.
Now all I run is Acad and Solid works. I can get by with my Geforce 3 just the way it is, but I really want a better video card. ATM I have 1 GF3 and GF2 installed with two monitors, both monitors display different things like Monitor #1 will display my drawings and Display #2 will display my email program (outlook). If I buy a video card that will support two monitors then can I get the same results? (not to extend the same program over two monitors)

Here is what I came up with, please let me know what you think and if this is a good way to go. Please feel free to change anything on the list and I will prolly go with your suggestions.

Intel Core 2 Quad Q6600 Kentsfield 2.4GHz 2 x 4MB L2 Cache LGA 775 Processor

GIGABYTE GA-P35C-DS3R LGA 775 Intel P35 ATX Intel Motherboard

CORSAIR XMS2 DOMINATOR 2GB (2 x 1GB) 240-Pin DDR2 SDRAM DDR2 800 (PC2 6400) Dual Channel Kit Desktop Memory

EVGA 256-P2-N761-AR GeForce 8600GTS 256MB 128-bit GDDR3 PCI Express x16 HDCP Ready SLI Supported Video Card

Thanks in advance.

Yeah that'll do fine.

May as well go for 4Gb though since memory is cheap as hell.

Foo wrote:Yeah that'll do fine.

May as well go for 4Gb though since memory is cheap as hell.

Ok, good idea thanks!

Keep in mind that you can't fully utilized 4GB of RAM on a 32-bit OS. You have a total of 4GB worth of memory addresses, roughly about 500MB worth is usually allocated to other devices.

Ok I will use 3 gigs of ram.

What about the Video card question?

Can I run one video card with dual monitor support and get the monitors to display different things or do I have to find a motherboard that supports two video cards? Anyone here have one video card with dual monitor support and get the monitors to display different applications? Like I said before the way my computer is set up now I have two monitors and the primary monitor displays my drawings (acad) and the second displays outlook and ie.

The nvidia drivers support several modes of multi-display on a single card, including the mode you seek.

creep wrote:The nvidia drivers support several modes of multi-display on a single card, including the mode you seek.

sweet, thank you sir.