I'll start by quickly saying the last time I bought computer hardware was about 4 years ago. So now that it's time to upgrade I have no idea what I'm doing with all this new technology.
I'm looking at getting an ASUS P5W DH DELUXE. However I've never had any experience with PCIe. My current computer is AGP. This mobo has 2 PCIe x16 slots. Does that mean I can put in two dual head video cards and run 4 monitors? I use my computer mainly for development, and would really like to get 3-4 monitors for productivity, however most of the cards I've found that allow for multiple display are very expensive and don't allow very high resolutions. It seems that if I'm going to spend the money, I might as well get two mid-range cards so I can run the resolutions I want and the cards can handle my wife's light gaming (Civ4, Zoo Tycoon, Sims, etc).
So can I do this? I noticed many PCIex16 cards take up two slots with the fans, but the mobo appears to have put adequate space between the pcie slots so that's probably not an issue.
Any help is appreciated, thanks!
-Crypton
I'm looking at getting an ASUS P5W DH DELUXE. However I've never had any experience with PCIe. My current computer is AGP. This mobo has 2 PCIe x16 slots. Does that mean I can put in two dual head video cards and run 4 monitors? I use my computer mainly for development, and would really like to get 3-4 monitors for productivity, however most of the cards I've found that allow for multiple display are very expensive and don't allow very high resolutions. It seems that if I'm going to spend the money, I might as well get two mid-range cards so I can run the resolutions I want and the cards can handle my wife's light gaming (Civ4, Zoo Tycoon, Sims, etc).
So can I do this? I noticed many PCIex16 cards take up two slots with the fans, but the mobo appears to have put adequate space between the pcie slots so that's probably not an issue.
Any help is appreciated, thanks!
-Crypton