Can i do this?

[Matteol]

I have an old monitor that uses vga, but my gpu doesn't have a vga slot and i want to run a dual monitor setup. Just to have random things like twitch on the other screen. And i was wondering if i can run my main one off of my gpu and my second one off of the motherboards graphics.

 

[DragonChase]

It depends on your components. Assuming you have a CPU with onboard graphics then you can use the CPU and GPU to both give off a separate image. You may want to check other topics like this one:
http://www.tomshardware.co.uk/answers/id-1928623/run-dual-monitors-gpu-motherboard.html

 

[Wolfshadw]

It depends on your motherboard. Some motherboards will disable the on-board graphics when a discrete graphics card is discovered. If this is the case, there may be an option in BIOS that will allow you to re-enable to on-board graphics.

If that is not an option, your current graphics card may be able to handle this. Just check to see if you have an available DVI-I output from the graphics card. If so, that output carries the analog signal that a VGA input requires and all you would need is the DVI-I to VGA adapter that comes with most graphic cards.

-Wolf sends