The card I use is the same as Mark's, I believe. It is a Matrox Dual-Head G450. Sure makes a big difference when running DX4WIN, etc. 73's, Mack N4SS ----- Original Message ----- From: "Mark Mowery AA8TC" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Jerry.Van" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; "DX4WIN Mailing List" <[email protected]> Sent: Tuesday, April 24, 2007 6:12 PM Subject: [Dx4win] Dual monitors
> Hi Jerry, > > I ran into the same problem: between DX4WIN, ARCluster User, MMTTY, and > occasionally a web page all open at the same time, a single 17" monitor > just wasn't cutting it anymore. I had an old 19" CRT monitor around, so I > used that for a while, playing around with font sizes and different > resolutions, but in the end it didn't seem to add all that much more > useable area. > > I bought a used Matrox dual-head video card on eBay for $15 (including > shipping) so I was able to attach a second 17" monitor. If you have the > physical space on your desktop, you'll get much more usable monitor area > by going this way than by just increasing the size of your existing > monitor. W98SE and later is all ready for dual monitor support with only > minimal setup. It's pretty slick: as you move the mouse pointer off one > side of one screen it flows smoothly over onto the other monitor. You can > even position windows to span both monitors, although I'm not sure why > you'd really want to do that, hi. > > The older Matrox card works perfectly well with my shack computer, which > is itself an older Windows98 system, and I had the extra monitor anyway, > so $15 and a little setup time is all I have invested. I did have to > download the drivers off the internet, but they were still available on > the Matrox website. > > There's more than one maker of dual-head video cards. NVIDIA comes to > mind, and I'm sure there's others. You can also add a second used > single-head video card and plug a monitor into each card for just about > the same amount of money, but there compatibility issues that sometimes > come up when you try to plug more than one video card into the same > motherboard. If I had another video card laying around, I'd probably try > that first, but if I had to buy one, I'd go with a dual-head card. > > Anyway, food for thought. > > 73, > Mark AA8TC > > > _______________________________________________ > Dx4win mailing list > [email protected] > http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/dx4win
