Having Dual Monitors with XP. 2 cards or 1?

[Guest]

Hello everyone, I know you guys are great with me asking my stupid questions. I have an old Voodoo card in my PCI slot and I have an extra 17" monitor that I would love to hook up with Windows XP for more space. Now my problem is I am looking for the LEAST amount of money to spend to get this to work. Now I've read quite a bit on this and a lot of people are having problems hooking up two video cards and if I understand it right, I would have to purchase an AGP card since I already have a PCI card and you need one of each to get it to work. Would it just be better if I got a DualView AGP card and if so, which one should I get which is the least expensive? I'm not really worried about playing games. I still only play Starcraft and I have an XBOX for hardcore gaming. Any suggestions would be great on what I should do! Ideally I'd like to not spend much and with the least amount of hassle of hooking up two with XP. Thanks again guys, you all are the best.

 

[jjondle]

Hey. **To my knowledge** the requirements for dual displays on your PC is either 2 seperate video cards or one that supports dual monitors. Some of these have 2 outputs but don't support the extended desktop you're looking for. If I were you, I'd just get a cheap video card from pricewatch.com or something. You don't need a whole new card with dual support. I am running a crappy PCI TNT2 M64 card and the other one is an even worse one that was integrated into my crappy PC when i got it. Dual monitors is working fine on that so just go get a 4 or 8 MB AGP card and you should be good to go.