OT: Graphics cards

[Scion]

Not DIY but this is the best place I know to get a good answer!

If a PC graphics card has a VGA and DVI output (e.g.

then will it drive dual displays? Or on the lower-end cards is it the same display being sent to both outputs?

As an aside, what's the best newsgroup for asking this sort of question?

[Adrian]

"Scion" gurgled happily, sounding much like they were saying:

No, it won't be dual-head. They'll just be different presentations of the same output.

[Scion]

Thanks Adrian.

[David WE Roberts]

See X-post above ;-)

[Jeff Gaines]

It should drive 2 displays independently:

As an aside, what's the best newsgroup for asking this sort of question? uk.comp.homebuilt is pretty good.

[Andy Burns]

Bollocks! It will be dual head.

[dennis]

Not true. That card can do extended desktops with a different resolution on each if wanted.

[David WE Roberts]

Although the descriptions online are not that helpful it seems to have three interfaces; VGA, DVI and HDMI. So is it possible to drive three displays? Or are you limited to VGA and one other? Or just one at a time? The manual you can download from the website is very non-specific and doesn't even mention HDMI.

[paulag]

You can drive 2 independent displays with this card, but not 3 (some of the higher spec Radeon cards can drive 3 displays though).

The basic specs of the card mention two integrated DVI display outputs so i would presume it can drive any two of the three outputs at the same time.

[Andy Burns]

That I would doubt, the cards usually have two CRTCs, so perm any two outputs from three, there are quad-head cards but *they* are not cheap.

[geoff]

In message , Scion writes

It also has a HDMI o/p

I'd be very surprised if it didn't support a dual / extended desktop