Just ordered me a second monitor, and i've never had 2 set up before, so seeing what kind of programs are you guys using to perhaps make the best of it. i know some extend your start bar to the other monitor, etc. i wanna have primary for say games, and secondary will be showing say AIM and AI Booster, etc.

P.S. they'll be running off SLI.

6/30/2006 12:15:08 PM

Ultramon!

Make sure you have the newest nvidia drivers so you can go into and out of SLI mode without restarting. SLI might give you some issures depending on how you want everything set up.

6/30/2006 12:17:04 PM

you'll love it...I don't even game on my PC but love the duals

Use one for the internet, and the other for either a Word doc, Excel sheet, movie, etc. Hard to NOT find ways to use the extra space

6/30/2006 12:21:10 PM

if you have nvidia cards, all you need is nView

6/30/2006 12:50:44 PM

I don't think you can extend the start bar with nView.

6/30/2006 12:55:50 PM

Quote :

"P.S. they'll be running off SLI. "

no they wont. in dual mon mode, each will be functioning as a seperate card.

youll need to disable your dual mon. setup when you want to run a game and utilize SLI (ultramon will do that)

SLI is complete financial bullshit, sorry you bought into that



[Edited on June 30, 2006 at 1:01 PM. Reason : dgfsd]

6/30/2006 12:59:54 PM

use Ultramon

6/30/2006 1:09:21 PM

Quote :

"no they wont. in dual mon mode, each will be functioning as a seperate card. youll need to disable your dual mon. setup when you want to run a game and utilize SLI (ultramon will do that) "

Good catch I forgot about that bullshit. You can still do dual monitos, but yea, youll have to use Ultramon in SLI mode to do it

6/30/2006 1:18:03 PM

I have a regular monitor and a second TV/Monitor. The TV/Monitor is absolutely perfect for watching movies, especially when paired with a wireless mouse.

[Edited on June 30, 2006 at 2:02 PM. Reason : ]

6/30/2006 2:02:06 PM

i didn't know ultramon handled sli mode

what exactly does it do

...or do you mean use ultramon to enable/disable secondary montors? nvidia control panel handles that when you enter sli mode, but i guess it won't re-enable them.

I forget.

[Edited on June 30, 2006 at 8:42 PM. Reason : lksjdf;lsakjdf]

[Edited on June 30, 2006 at 8:43 PM. Reason : i have a dell 24" w/ two 20.1" wing monitors!!!!!!111]

6/30/2006 8:41:10 PM

so wait, i know that both will be running of the primary card. but what do you mean by disabling the second monitor to run games in sli. i do have the latest nvidia drivers, the cards are 7800 gtx, my primary goal of getting the second monitor was to have shit open on the second mon while running games on primary

http://forums.whirlpool.net.au/forum-replies-archive.cfm/530045.html

so can it be done or not. if yes, then how.... that's the only damn reason i got the fucking monitor, i'll be really pissed off if i can't use it. like that forum says, i wanna run a game on primary using SLI, and have the second monitor idling, showing PC stats.

[Edited on June 30, 2006 at 9:24 PM. Reason : ]

if not, i guess my only hope is to get ANOTHER cheap ass PCI video card and just run the second monitor off of that, is that possible?

[Edited on June 30, 2006 at 9:35 PM. Reason : ]

6/30/2006 9:12:38 PM

why would you have thought that you could do this

dont you understand how sli works?

6/30/2006 9:54:14 PM

i dunno, for some reason i thought the cards just could designate most of their power to the primary monitor, and just a little bit to the secondary

so is it possible for me to get another card and use that for the second monitor

[Edited on June 30, 2006 at 9:55 PM. Reason : ]

6/30/2006 9:55:04 PM

i guess

6/30/2006 9:57:48 PM

how does that work with the motherboard? in that case, could i just plug in the second monitor into the on-board video?

never mind, don't have an on-board video

[Edited on June 30, 2006 at 10:03 PM. Reason : ]

6/30/2006 10:02:56 PM

you can add another card to an expansion... mo $ tho

6/30/2006 10:34:53 PM

IF you get a third video card

make damn sure it's a nvidia

[Edited on June 30, 2006 at 11:46 PM. Reason : ,lp]

6/30/2006 11:46:22 PM

but it will work right?

7/1/2006 3:29:26 AM

i have no idea

7/1/2006 7:05:19 AM

Quote :

"SLI is complete financial bullshit, sorry you bought into that"

figured that out myself over the past year

7/1/2006 1:39:11 PM

well i mean i had no problem with SLI until this monitor shit came up.

7/1/2006 5:55:24 PM

Ive always wondered about using on board video for a third monitor but figured if it was possible it was over my head.

7/1/2006 6:05:03 PM

well i got the ASUS PNS32 SLI deluxe board, dont have on-board. so i found me a cheap ass nvidia card on newegg, $30, so when it gets here, i'm gonna see what's the deal. monitor gonna be here monday, so.... we'll see what's up

7/2/2006 1:52:16 AM

definately use ultramon

7/3/2006 7:28:25 AM

i too vouch for ultramon. make sure you get a full version though.

7/3/2006 8:18:47 PM

I've got 3 monitors on the trial version... (unless my roomate cracked it and I didn't know about it...)... I love ultramon... the only things I use though are the seperate pictures for each monitor and the toolbars that go on each screen

4 monitors, 1 disabled
Current desktop: 3840x1024 (-1280,0 - 2560,1024)

[Edited on July 3, 2006 at 9:47 PM. Reason : post from my ultramon "about"]

7/3/2006 9:46:35 PM

hotkeys are pretty convenient too. you can disable monitors or move a window or span a window with a customizable key combination.

7/4/2006 2:04:09 AM

that doesn't answer my question though, will i definetly have to get a 3rd card to use SLI on the primary monitor?

7/4/2006 7:13:31 PM

just turn sli on and off

7/5/2006 8:36:40 AM

fuck that. anyway, get the monitor in about an hour, we'll see what's up. as for the 3rd card, i've been reading a lot of shit online and they all say that it should be an ATI card instead of nvidia, so nvidia drivers can't take control of it and blah blah blah. i guess that's what i'm gonna have to do, it's gonna be interesting how much shit will i run into trying to use both nvidia and ati cards...

7/5/2006 5:10:13 PM

since you have dual 7800gtx's that each take up 3 slots with the aftermarket cooler. That leaves what? one space left for a pci slot? Thought you were running wireless network card in that slot at your apartment.

7/7/2006 1:11:26 PM

not to sound like a n00b or anything but what is SLI?

7/7/2006 3:55:03 PM

^too late.

1. google
2. basically it's combining 2 video cards (SLI = nVidia, Crossfire = ATI) into 1 more powerful GPU.

7/7/2006 4:08:50 PM

if the internet told you to combine nvidia and ati

and you thought that sounded like a good idea

well

hahahahahaha

7/7/2006 9:59:20 PM

So is mixing ATI and nVidia like mixing oil and water, as in too hard to be worthwhile? Or is it more like mixing oil and Rosie O'Donnel, as in gross, ungodly, and wrong beyond words?

[Edited on July 7, 2006 at 10:06 PM. Reason : ]

7/7/2006 10:06:12 PM

^ more like #2

7/7/2006 11:09:06 PM

it's just extremely likely that it won't work

7/8/2006 12:11:39 AM

^^^Getting stable drivers to work on on an ATI card itself is a challenge. I can only imagine what it would be like to mix it with another brand card.

7/8/2006 9:21:30 AM

so does that mean having an nvidia and ati card on one computer using pci-e won't work? I mean not setting up SLI or crossfire since that won't work... duh. But shouldn't that work?

7/8/2006 9:37:31 PM

well as i said, i need another card. forums online say its better not to get nvidia as well. but just like ya'll, i'm having doubts about mixing ati and nvidia. so i'm bout to order one. but i dont know which one to go with.

7/10/2006 6:10:09 PM

NO HELP FROM YOU GUYS!!! nvidia or ati????????????????????

7/15/2006 6:53:47 PM

didn't realize we were here to serve you

7/15/2006 7:28:41 PM

lol. well i got a response from nvidia, they said i can have 3 of their cards.... but they said all gotta be pcie. so i think i'm gonna go with some cheap ass ATI. anyone's got one they wanna sell?

7/16/2006 10:33:48 PM

Why not just get one card that supports 2 monitors?

7/16/2006 10:50:53 PM

if you read the post you'd understand that i already have 2 nvidia geforce 7800 gtx's, and i want them running SLI, when in SLI mode, i cannot run 2 monitors off those 2 cards. SO. i need another card to run the 2nd monitor lol.

so i ordered me some cheap ass nvidia. we'll see how it goes...

7/17/2006 6:40:23 PM

so i just got another nvidia card. i can run the second monitor off of it but nvidia won't let me enable SLI. it says i must remove any graphics cards that are not compatible with NVIDIA Scalabla Link Interface (SLI) technology before you can enable SLI. grrr. any ideas? can i fuck with this in bios or something?

7/19/2006 9:20:56 PM

triple post haha. anywyas, i got me some nvidia 4400 or something like that. $32. lol. brand new, will trade to somebody for a PCI ATI card

7/19/2006 9:35:37 PM

You don't really need to be in SLI mode if you're not gaming. When you are gaming, turn on SLI since you won't really need the second monitor. Or, since you have 7800gtxs, don't use SLI at all since 1 gtx will wtfpwn 99% of the games in existance.

7/19/2006 9:46:04 PM

i'm getting tired of repeating myself, but once again. i DO want the second monitor on while i'm running a game in SLI.

7/19/2006 9:50:07 PM

Quote :

"i'm getting tired of repeating myself, but once again. i DO want the second monitor on while i'm running a game in SLI."

it isnt going to happen

just get another cheapo computer if you have to have other shit running

7/19/2006 10:28:58 PM