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Just a post to ask 2 things, how many of you use dual monitors, and second, how do you set them up?
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if someone could please suggest how to go about doing this, it would be a great help, what i want to do is set it up so that i can run one program on both screens, i have a second screen lying around, just wondered as how to use it

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I think single monitor is enough for me, I believe most of professional photographer would end up to have dual monitor for serious inspection of their pictures

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I use 2 monitors, a 19 inch, centered (1440x900) and a 15 inch (1024x768) too the left.

Once you use two, its so hard to go back to 1. You just get used to it.

Hi Robodent,

I use dual monitors at work, but have only one 24" monitor at home, which is enough for me.

For starters your graphics card has to be able to support this - not all do. Alternately you have to have two graphics cards - e.g. ATI Crossfire or Nvidia SLI set-up.

From there you right-click on your desktop background and choose "properties". Go to settings and advanced and find your GPU driver software..and from there it depends on the software and the graphics card.

It should be fairly intuitive if you have connected your two monitors properly - you would want the "extend desktop" option so that it considers the screen-acreage one large desktop. This allows you to move windows back and forth as per your needs.

Good luck with your set-up!

Cheers

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Moved from Off-topic.

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thanks for that, ive got it sorted now. 2x 17" monitors set up using a nvidia 9800GX2, works fine.
Thanks for the help

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Dual 22's

Had dual 19's for years,

I'd never use a single screen set up EVER.

I want 3 screens, I'd like to have the middle one centered for playing games haha.

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Not yet, but I plan on buying another 22". Should be nice. For now, I don't have the desk space for another!

I should do this:

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Then you should try the Matrox TH2G.

I use 3 24" lcd's at home I have them mounted side by side on a wall mounts with extended arms.

I use these mainly when I am benchmarking. Then again I am a computer geek and am always looking for the best overclock

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I use two monitors. Front is 22" and side is 19". I don't think I could ever go back to a single. The dual setup gives me way more working real estate. I move all the layer and tool tabs to the side monitor, so I have as much clear space for the image as possible. I mainly use the key shortcuts so I don't have to mouse for the tools and such. Makes editing a lot easier. And I can watch TV on the side monitor, heh.

Ive tried dual monitor and now it's VERY HARD just to have one.

Dual monitor rocks !!

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I too have 2 monitors. One main TFT screen, and one CRT for true color representation.

I use the program Ultramon to get a taskbar on my second screen, makes life a lot easier. It also helps manage dualscreen wallpapers.

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