Help With Monitors

[Domse65]

So I'm looking to buy a new monitor I found one but the brightness of it is 200 cd/m2 ,but my primary monitors brightness is 250 cd/m2, and the contrast ratio is 700:1, but my primary monitor is 1000:1 is these are going to be a problem, and will it look different from each other? Another question I have is if I can connect the second monitor to my cpu's integrated graphics card? I have a asus gtx 660, but I don't have the right connections, so can I connect it to my i5-4460?

 

[Domse65]

Someone?

 

[Bungle11]

What resolution are you after? Kind of pointless if you don't state the resolution. And what ports does the monitor you want to get have?

 

[Domse65]

What resolution are you after? Kind of pointless if you don't state the resolution. And what ports does the monitor you want to get have?

I want 1920x1080, I don't have the right connectors on my graphics card. The second monitor is vga and I only have hdmi, display port, dvi-d and dvi-i is connected to my primary monitor on my graphics card

 

[Bungle11]

Ok so what you are saying is that you have your primary plugged into the GPU via HDMI (or whatever conector it uses), and that you have a second monitor that is VGA only (which the GPU doesn't have) but the motherboard (or integrated graphics) has.

In which case, I would say you can plug one into the gpu and one into the mobo, but you will need to check if your BIOS supports this. Most do, but check just in case.

You can however have two monitors, with two different connector types (i.e. Display port and DVI) running off your GPU. So i don't see the benefits of GPU/integrated configuration you suggest. You can get a DVI to VGA adapter for next to nothing. This will let you plug your VGA monitor into your GPU.

As for contrast ratio etc. Unless your monitors are the same make and model, colours etc will always look different. I would just adjust the settings on the monitors until they look similar.

 

[Domse65]

Ok so what you are saying is that you have your primary plugged into the GPU via HDMI (or whatever conector it uses), and that you have a second monitor that is VGA only (which the GPU doesn't have) but the motherboard (or integrated graphics) has.

In which case, I would say you can plug one into the gpu and one into the mobo, but you will need to check if your BIOS supports this. Most do, but check just in case.

You can however have two monitors, with two different connector types (i.e. Display port and DVI) running off your GPU. So i don't see the benefits of GPU/integrated configuration you suggest. You can get a DVI to VGA adapter for next to nothing. This will let you plug your VGA monitor into your GPU.

As for contrast ratio etc. Unless your monitors are the same make and model, colours etc will always look different. I would just adjust the settings on the monitors until they look similar.

Thanks