by low dough » Thu Dec 23, 2004 10:58 pm
The cheapest way to go is with a PCI video card and your existing card.
If you have Windows 98 or newer, the operating system has built in support for 2 monitors.
Tetsuo has recommended a more expensive approach, but it has more potential.
With just a PCI card, your maxixmum resolution may be too small to allow settings you might desire. With a newer more powerful AGP card, like your 128MD nVidia or better, you should be able to have 2 monitors running 1600x1200 at 32bit. That is 8 tables at once!
Look for "dual RAMDACs @350mhz" or faster. You do not have to know what that means to look for it in the specification sheet, but this is the component of the card that takes the Digital signal(picture) and Converts it to Analog that goes to your monitor.
A friend of mine has 3 monitors, an AGP card and a Matrox dual head PCI card.
He runs all his monitors at 800x600 and leans back in his easy chair to play 6 tables at once with a wireless mouse/keyboard.
If you could look up your card, I could tell you if that model supports 2 monitor setups.
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