A second monitor?

Sausage Snowman

Dingwall,Scotland, United King

Nov 12, 2009 @ 22:29:28

My graphics card is an ATI radeon HD 4830
I currently have a monitor which uses 1680 x 1050 resolution.
Could I get a second monitor to run alongside this one?
What would be the ideal resolution for this monitor?
Who are a good make of monitor that I could look into getting?

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Pete

Master of Unlocking

Central Scotland, United Kingd

#2

Nov 12, 2009 @ 22:35:00

Sure!

I love having duel monitors.

Any monitor will do, as long as your graphic card can support the combined resolution, but if it where me, i would need to get 2 monitors that where the same (i mean by screen size and resolution)

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KulliK357

Sausage Snowman

Dingwall,Scotland, United King

#3

Nov 12, 2009 @ 22:36:48

@Pete Said

Sure!

I love having duel monitors.

Any monitor will do, as long as your graphic card can support the combined resolution, but if it where me, i would need to get 2 monitors that where the same (i mean by screen size and resolution)

I know i can have two monitors, i did it myself with my laptop, i'm just asking if i could run another monitor on this graphics card since this resolution i have now is pretty big.
Thanks for the reply though.

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Pete

Master of Unlocking

Central Scotland, United Kingd

#4

Nov 12, 2009 @ 22:39:02

According to AMD your graphics card can support the following resolutions

2560 x 1600 if connected by dual-link DVI

or

2048 x 15363 by VGA

I have no idea what it would be if you use both.

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KulliK357

Sausage Snowman

Dingwall,Scotland, United King

#5

Nov 12, 2009 @ 22:42:26

@Pete Said

According to AMD your graphics card can support the following resolutions

2560 x 1600 if connected by dual-link DVI

or

2048 x 15363 by VGA

I have no idea what it would be if you use both.

I have two DVI ports, this monitor i have now needs an adapter, does that page refer to different models of the same card or just to the actual type of monitor.

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Pete

Master of Unlocking

Central Scotland, United Kingd

#6

Nov 12, 2009 @ 22:44:33

@KulliK357 Said

I have two DVI ports, this monitor i have now needs an adapter, does that page refer to different models of the same card or just to the actual type of monitor.

It just lists the standard detials of the card.

https://ati.amd.com/products/Radeonhd4800/specs2.html thats where i got it from.

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KulliK357

Sausage Snowman

Dingwall,Scotland, United King

#7

Nov 12, 2009 @ 22:48:05

Thanks, It won't run another 22" at the native so i think I'll try get something else, at least try keep it in 16:10 (I prefer it to 16:9, better all around, not just for films or just for text)

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Pete

Master of Unlocking

Central Scotland, United Kingd

#8

Nov 12, 2009 @ 22:50:35

If thats so, you could always buy a second graphics card, this doesn't need to be anything fancy (as long as you keep all the right graphical intensive stuff on the more powerfull card)

It would be best to stick with ATI, probably even the same series (4800) so you don't get any driver troubles and such.

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KulliK357

Sausage Snowman

Dingwall,Scotland, United King

#9

Nov 12, 2009 @ 22:53:13

@Pete Said

If thats so, you could always buy a second graphics card, this doesn't need to be anything fancy (as long as you keep all the right graphical intensive stuff on the more powerfull card)

It would be best to stick with ATI, probably even the same series (4800) so you don't get any driver troubles and such.

There's not enough space inside my tower

this one barely fits

I needed to rearange my SATA plugs just to get it in, and it's still pretty tight.
Damn you acer and you lack of customisability.

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Pete

Master of Unlocking

Central Scotland, United Kingd

#10

Nov 12, 2009 @ 22:55:26

@KulliK357 Said

There's not enough space inside my tower

this one barely fits

I needed to rearange my SATA plugs just to get it in, and it's still pretty tight.
Damn you acer and you lack of customisability.

So there are no free PCI-E (even PCI would do as long as your just using it for general use) slots?

mhmm.

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KulliK357

Sausage Snowman

Dingwall,Scotland, United King

#11

Nov 12, 2009 @ 22:57:15

@Pete Said

So there are no free PCI-E (even PCI would do as long as your just using it for general use) slots?

mhmm.

Yeah, there are four slots but they are totally different to the one my current card is in.
the old graphics card in this is a s***ty Nvidia 7000 series integrated, it could do possibly.

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Pete

Master of Unlocking

Central Scotland, United Kingd

#12

Nov 12, 2009 @ 23:00:31

Im wondering if im confused over this resolution thing, what ATI/AMD state doesn't seem to be able to support much, only low resolutions (if you want 2 anyway) like length wise, the biggest would be 1280 individually, which while not bad, isn't great if you want bigger monitors/resolution

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KulliK357

Sausage Snowman

Dingwall,Scotland, United King

#13

Nov 12, 2009 @ 23:03:30

@Pete Said

Im wondering if im confused over this resolution thing, what ATI/AMD state doesn't seem to be able to support much, only low resolutions (if you want 2 anyway) like length wise, the biggest would be 1280 individually, which while not bad, isn't great if you want bigger monitors/resolution

I dunno, it's a low end gaming card (the 4830) so perhaps the power isn't focused so much of resolution.
(bear in mind I'm not that great at this sort of thing)

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Pete

Master of Unlocking

Central Scotland, United Kingd

#14

Nov 12, 2009 @ 23:05:52

@KulliK357 Said

I dunno, it's a low end gaming card (the 4830) so perhaps the power isn't focused so much of resolution.
(bear in mind I'm not that great at this sort of thing)

Nah, according to the HD 5870, the max resolution is the same.

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KulliK357

Sausage Snowman

Dingwall,Scotland, United King

#15

Nov 12, 2009 @ 23:10:44

@Pete Said

Nah, according to the HD 5870, the max resolution is the same.

Weird, even the best card they have (4870 X2)is still at that res.
Nvidia have the same maximum : https://www.nvidia.co.uk/object/product_geforce_gtx_295_uk.html

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Edited: November 12, 2009 @ 23:14

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