dual widescreen monitors??

[Nick The Man]

well first id need a new video card ( any reccomendations would be great ) then i will have to build a new top shelf for my desk but then,

I own 1 widescreen monitor right now.. would it look stupid if i bought another of the same widescreen. It seems like when i see people with dual monitors they are just the plain square ones and then you put them next to eachother and they become a widescreen

[cusebassman]

Two monitors with a 4:3 aspect ratio together wind up being wider than a single widescreen monitor. Two widescreens together would be pretty beastly, but its been done, a lot I've seen who have a Mac tower for graphic art stuff who did two monitors had, say, 2 20" or 23" Apple Cinema displays... I have one 23" Apple Cinema that I hook to my powerBHook and to my PC desktop, and its all the screen space I could ever need.

How big is the widescreen you have currently? Perhaps if the feel is a concern (two widescreens will span a lot of horizontal distance even if they are 17's), you could look into selling the one you've got and upgrading to a larger single widescreen display. Just one way to go.

[tarnationsauce2]

I use 2x 22" widescreen monitors. It really helps work flow and efficiency. Currently I have mine set up in a vertical configuration, I can see a lot of tracks at once (sometimes a whole session). Or I can have all of the buses and effects on one screen, and tracks on another. I also set it so that one screen is the mixer, and the other is the tracks files. It's also nice for analasys if you're comparing noise, looking at FFTs etc..
It has really spoiled me. Beats the hell out of working on a 17" CRT like I did for so many years lol.
I wouldn't really worry if it "looks stupid". Which BTW I don't think it does.

[daav]

I just got the dual monitor thing going myself, it is great. So much easier to organize tracking an mixing.

Widescreens or not, make not much difference, I find widescreens to make sense with traciking, but when I went from one widescreen to two not widescreens, i have been so happy with the extra acreage that i haven't worried about which setup would be slightly better than the other.

Daav

[Nick The Man]

thanks for the resopses. Right now i have an Acer 19" widescreen, great quality and only $200.

my motherboard only takes express video cards, but actually now that i look at it it has an option for dual video cards too, that could be a possibility to just leave the card i have in there already and just buy another one, then i know they would be compatable.. is this a good idea or would it just be better to buy a new video card that allows for 2 digital hookups?

[daav]

I have an older 128 MB NVIDIA card that allows me to do a decent jobw ith dual monitors with a VGA and DVI outs on the same card.

It can't really do much for gaming or anything but for music stuff, works great.

Daav

[Nick The Man]

yeah mine has VGA and DVI too

how do flat screens look hooked up on the VGA?

[punkin]

Dual 21" here. Love it. Radeon 9800 pro video card works for me.

[Nick The Man]

dual 21" wide? or just normal

[zed32]

i have dual 17's and i like having the vertical workspace, i don't see where i would really use dual wide.

maybe one normal size screen for the track view, so you have more vertical area, and then the 2nd screen could be wide, for a horizontal mixer view. that might look kinda goofy, but functional.

[Nick The Man]

here is my current card

actually i dont have a VGA its D-sub so im assuming a second monitor wouldnt work on D-Sub

[cusebassman]

Not seein a link, but once its up I can probably clarify connections

[Nick The Man]

woops my bad here it is:

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16814121010

[harphunt]

You may not need another video card. This works for me!

http://audiominds.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=4143

PEACE

[Nick The Man]

Originally Posted by harphunt

You may not need another video card. This works for me!

http://audiominds.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=4143

PEACE

thanks man cool microsoft article. I guess my card will work then.

i wonder what the difference between the DVI and VGA is...anyone?

[cusebassman]

Yeah, I'd second what one person had to say - replace the AGP video card rather than tack on a PCI video card... in fixing computers for a number of years for college students, I've seen some funky problems with PCI video cards - and the AGP cards tht support two monitors are pretty cheap at this point. Just the ole' 2 cents

[cusebassman]

You can connect a VGA monitor to a DVI port using something like the following:

http://sewelldirect.com/DVIAMTOVGAF.asp

[Nick The Man]

wow i missed these last two posts. thanks for the info ive also done some more research myself.. i think im getting the second widescreen tommarow.. my card has VGA and Composite out so right now i have my TV hooked up but when i order the second monitor tommarow i probably wont bother with the TV hook up. By the way someone said they had a vertical configuration, i know how to set that up in windows but id like to see what your desk looks like that holds that second monitor up above the first one... my monitor is already up high as it is so i dont think id go that route.. i remember when i first finished building my desk my neck hurt for a while getting used the the monitor being up a little higher than what i was always used to.