Can you set-up dual monitors with different video cards each?

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So i have a personal pc and my father gave me his old pc. Can i use both monitors in one cpu but they will both use different graphics card each? I saw at youtube and they only show how to set up dual monitors with only 1 graphics card, so would my option work?
 
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What adapter thing are they recommending? What are the two video cards? If you had a mid level one and a low level one it makes no sense to use both, i know it may seem like using both is fair to the cards, but they don't care and its just a waste of power to be running the overhead for a second card.
 
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That DVI to VGA adapter. The one i'm using right now is a NVIDIA GeForce 210, i forgot the other one but it's somewhere about GeForce 9 series. Sorry if i'm giving wrong infos because i'm not really that good at checking specs.
 
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Pretty much any 9 series card is going to be better than that G 210, the 9400 GT is three tiers above it
http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/gaming-graphics-card-review,3107-7.html

Speccy does a good job of pulling basic specs on what it can query, you may want to start with that
http://www.piriform.com/speccy

Also, do your monitors require a VGA connection? Many screens have both DVI and VGA so you can run one off of a VGA port and the other off a DVI port, or both off DVI if you have 2 DVI ports. If you really need a DVI-VGA adapter they are super cheap, or ask one of your computer savvy friends, i have 3 in my box-o-parts
http://www.monoprice.com/Product?c_id=104&cp_id=10419&cs_id=1041903&p_id=2396&seq=1&format=2
 
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