Do you guys reckon that i will have any problems running a dual screen display with the primary running on a geforce graphics card and the secondary running from the onboard intel graphics processor?
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I run dual 24" screens using ONE gfx card, although that is an ATI 4870 X2, so two gfx cards in reality.
Doesn't using a plug in graphics card disable on-board graphics?
Yeah you can't run onboard graphics if you have a second card installed - Best thing to do is buy what is known as a 'Dual-Head' graphics cards which has two outputs. XFX make some really good ones and they're not that expensive - can be picked up from DABS relatively cheaply. I use one to run twin 24's and it's great 
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Yeah you can't run onboard graphics if you have a second card installed - Best thing to do is buy what is known as a 'Dual-Head' graphics cards which has two outputs. XFX make some really good ones and they're not that expensive - can be picked up from DABS relatively cheaply. I use one to run twin 24's and it's great
Thanks mate, I'll have a look at their cards!!
no worries!
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Turns out i already have a dual head card, its just that one of them is a DVI output, didn't realise this could be used as a completely seperate connection :doh:
Shows how much of a noob i am
Shows how much of a noob i am
lmao well there you go then! Bonus!
Hybrid Crossfire and Hybrid SLI allow you to run a monitor off the motherboard graphics chip aswell as the outputs from the graphics cards for future reference
