You pretty much answered this question on your own. As long as your video card specifically says that it supports dual monitors, it will support dual monitors.


Will the performance go down? Not if you have the hardware to back it up. If your Power Supply, Processor, and memory are high enough, you will not see a performance difference. The difference you may see is in picture quality. Obviously LCDs will give you a "sharper" picture but some people believe that CRTs still out class LCDs in overall picture quality. As with anything, experimentation is key.


Not that I have seen. Some may say that DVI is much better than VGA and vice versa. It is all about preference. The best way to tell is to see for yourself. I may have mentioned this to you in one of my other posts but experimentation is the best way to learn.


I am sure of it. I would highly advise you to make sure your Power Supply and your RAM are high enough so that you can support a dual video card setup. If you have one video card that can support a dual monitor setup, there is no need to get two video cards to support two monitors.


No, the game will more than likely load on the primary screen. I have three monitors and when I play games, the games always load onto the primary monitor. You may have an option to configure your game to play on the second monitor but the settings may need to be adjusted.

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Hi Brewer. The three monitors I have are two 15" monitors and a 22" monitor. The only criteria that I HAVE to meet is that I set the resolution of all three monitors the same. Other than that, I have never had to worry about the resolution of the video card.

Now, your situation may be different depending on your specific video card and monitor but, as always, the best thing to do is experiment. What works for me may not necessarily work for you.

The frame rate may go fluctuate from monitor to monitor. The best thing I can say is that if you notice a significant difference in the frame rate, make the necessary adjustments to the resolution until you get the frame rate that best suits you. To be honest, I am not the strongest when it comes to frame rates so if any part of this paragraph is incorrect, hopefully our fellow forum members can correct me.

In relation to your specific video card, I really do not give out product suggestions unless it relates to some type of hardware failure. If someone told you that the processor you have may not be able to handle that particular video card, I would speak directly to the manufacturer. They are the one who is best able to give you a definitive answer. Here are the minimum system requirements for your video card:

• 1GB of system memory
• Microsoft Windows Vista -or- Windows XP
• CD or DVD-ROM drive
• 50MB of available hard disk drive space for basic driver installation
• A 425W PCI Express-compliant system power supply with a combined 12V current rating of 28A or more *Minimum system power requirement based on a typical PC configured with an Intel Core2 Extreme X6800 processor
• A PCI Express-compliant motherboard with an available PCI Express x16 slot. A vacant slot below the PCI Express x16 slot. The graphics card physically occupies two slots
• One 6-pin PCI Express supplementary power connector -or- Two 4-pin Molex power connectors
• NVIDIA SLI Requirements: Combine multiple BFG NVIDIA GeForce-based graphics cards with an NVIDIA nForce SLI-based motherboard. IMPORTANT: Graphics cards MUST be from the same manufacturer and contain identical GPUs. For example, a BFG NVIDIA GeForce 8800 GTS PCIe can only be paired with another BFG NVIDIA GeForce 8800 GTS PCIe graphics card

No where in there does it say that a Pentium 4 can not handle this card. If you have any specific questions about this card, I would direct them to NVIDIA.

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