# multi monitor video cards....

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**Created:** [November 29, 2005, 8:16am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/multi-monitor-video-cards/5091 "2005-11-29T08:16:08Z")\
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**Author:** ![Locutus](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/locutus/32/7574_2.png) [@Locutus](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Locutus)\
**Post date:** [November 29, 2005, 8:16am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/multi-monitor-video-cards/5091/1 "2005-11-29T08:16:08Z")

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ok, some know the huge nerdage that i have at work. some don’t.

but anyways…

work wont buy me a 32" cinema display which is ridiculous, but whatever…

i have 4 lcd’s.

i want to make them all work together.

i have to buy more video cards, i know this, but i want it to be manageable. plus ill need a kvm because i have multipal boxes that will be using these monitors.

this is the set up that im working with:

![http://www.ergotron.com/3_products/flat_panel/hd_multi/images/33-096.jpg](http://www.ergotron.com/3_products/flat_panel/hd_multi/images/33-096.jpg)

on the bottom left i want the task bar

and on the rest i want a huge desktop.

I know it can be done, but i just want to be sure how to do it…

i don’t really have time to do research, so if anyone has any input on this i would appreciate it…

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**Author:** ![Nikuk](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/nikuk/32/7254_2.png) [@Nikuk](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Nikuk)\
**Post date:** [November 29, 2005, 8:17am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/multi-monitor-video-cards/5091/2 "2005-11-29T08:17:57Z")

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in - because I’ve always wanted to know how to do this so that I can make a wall of televisions for shits & giggle.

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**Author:** ![chino](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/bcef8e/32.png) [@chino](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/chino)\
**Post date:** [November 29, 2005, 4:29pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/multi-monitor-video-cards/5091/3 "2005-11-29T16:29:39Z")

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get two dual display cards, and make sure that they have the capability to span desktops (create one solid monitor, instead of extending the desktop) I know the card i just picked up at work can do it, and its pci, which you will need to run two of them, since i dunno of many boards with two agp slots.

its a geforce fx5500 (pny)

its cheap as shit but for multi displays it works really well.

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**Author:** ![Dr.Stevil](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/da6949/32.png) [@Dr.Stevil](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Dr.Stevil)\
**Post date:** [December 2, 2005, 7:55am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/multi-monitor-video-cards/5091/4 "2005-12-02T07:55:49Z")

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> [@chino](#):
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> get two dual display cards, and make sure that they have the capability to span desktops (create one solid monitor, instead of extending the desktop) I know the card i just picked up at work can do it, and its pci, which you will need to run two of them, since i dunno of many boards with two agp slots.
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> its a geforce fx5500 (pny)
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> its cheap as shit but for multi displays it works really well.

werd :tup:

you will probably need some sort of desktop management software aswell. The nVidia software doesnt work all that well IMO.

I’m running 2 monitors at the moment and tried expanding it to one large desktop (so the start bar goes along the bottom of both screens) opposed to 2 seperate desktops but it didnt like that for some reason.

try a program called ultramon or another good one is multimon taskbar

edit.

you might only need one dual display vid card actually.

I’m currently running monitor 1 from the primary port on my GeForce card, and the second one from the S-Vid port. So if you have on board video you could probably use that along with the primary/secondary and s-video connections from your dual display card. Havent done it myself, but it seems like it should work ok.

let us know how it goes