Graphics card with dual DVI out

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Hi

Probably a stupid question (I'm good at those!) but...

I'm thinking of buying two 17" TFTs for my PC. I'll need a new graphics card
which supports 2 monitors. All the ones I can find seem for have one
analogue VGA port and one 'digital' DVI port. I plan to get TFTs with DVI
inputs so would like to run them both DVI rather than one DVI and one
VGA/analogue.

I realise that you can get 'dongles' to convert the DVI port to VGA d-type
(I guess the DVI socket has digital and analogue pins) but I am presuming
that the standard VGA dtype does not support digital.

Does this make any kind of sense....upshot is how do I run two TFTs via DVI
from one graphics card?

Thanks

Jonathan
Nottingham, UK

 

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Jonathan E wrote:

> Hi
>
> Probably a stupid question (I'm good at those!) but...
>
> I'm thinking of buying two 17" TFTs for my PC. I'll need a new graphics
> card which supports 2 monitors. All the ones I can find seem for have one
> analogue VGA port and one 'digital' DVI port. I plan to get TFTs with DVI
> inputs so would like to run them both DVI rather than one DVI and one
> VGA/analogue.
>
> I realise that you can get 'dongles' to convert the DVI port to VGA d-type
> (I guess the DVI socket has digital and analogue pins) but I am presuming
> that the standard VGA dtype does not support digital.
>
> Does this make any kind of sense....upshot is how do I run two TFTs via
> DVI from one graphics card?

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> Thanks
>
> Jonathan
> Nottingham, UK

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Jonathan,
Look up www.matrox.com they have range of cards that are ideal. I have the
P750 myself that is ideal for dual DVI output and can also run up to 3
monitors if required.

"Jonathan E" <jonathan@no-spam-ethnet.co.uk> wrote in message
news:cgpk8h$ffc$1@sparta.btinternet.com...
> Hi
>
> Probably a stupid question (I'm good at those!) but...
>
> I'm thinking of buying two 17" TFTs for my PC. I'll need a new graphics
card
> which supports 2 monitors. All the ones I can find seem for have one
> analogue VGA port and one 'digital' DVI port. I plan to get TFTs with DVI
> inputs so would like to run them both DVI rather than one DVI and one
> VGA/analogue.
>
> I realise that you can get 'dongles' to convert the DVI port to VGA d-type
> (I guess the DVI socket has digital and analogue pins) but I am presuming
> that the standard VGA dtype does not support digital.
>
> Does this make any kind of sense....upshot is how do I run two TFTs via
DVI
> from one graphics card?
>
> Thanks
>
> Jonathan
> Nottingham, UK
>
>