Dual monitor possible?

[Liam Proven]

On 05/10/2007, Brian McKee <brian.mckee at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 05/10/2007, Liam Proven <lproven at gmail.com> wrote:
> > On 05/10/2007, Ashley Benton <meggalen at gmail.com> wrote:
> > > I think it is build in the motherboard, there is no card just a pink thing
> > > (sorry don't know the name) plug into the motherboard
> >
> > Ah. Now, forgive me, but if you mentioned that before, I didn't notice
> > it. Which is a shame, because I think it's an absolutely critical bit
> > of information.
> >
> > In my experience, on a lot of machines, if you have what are called
> > "integrated graphics" - that means, the graphic chip is built into the
> > motherboard, not on a separate card - then there is circuitry in the
> > motherboard logic which will automatically disable the onboard
> > graphics when you insert a graphics card.
>
> Darn it - I didn't see that either.  That would explain the
> 'automatic' change from one card to the other.
>
> I agree - you aren't going to get them both to work at the same time.
>
> On the other hand - isn't her new FX500 a better card than the on the
> motherboard one?  It will use the 'real' nvidia drivers not legacy for
> starters...  I'd be tempted to use it and ignore the built in one.

You might be right there. I'm no expert on modern 3D cards; all I ever
use 3D for is funky screensavers. :¬)

At a guess, using a card will mean dedicated video RAM, when there's a
fair chance that the integrated graphics "borrow" some system RAM.
That's a definite advantage to a card.

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