Simviation Forum - TV as second monitor.??

Feb 3^rd, 2005 at 1:36pm

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I want to use my TV as a second monitor... i have a port... just need a tutorial or such....

PS... can anyone recomend a graphics card 0-100quid with 2 monitor ports and that can perform better or the same as a 9800..??

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Reply #1 - Feb 3^rd, 2005 at 9:35pm

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I want to use my TV as a second monitor... i have a port... just need a tutorial or such....

PS... can anyone recomend a graphics card 0-100quid with 2 monitor ports and that can perform better or the same as a 9800..??

Since no price quote is given.

An X800 XT or a 6800 ULtra. Both are better then a 9800 and have dual dvi interfaces.

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Reply #2 - Feb 4^th, 2005 at 1:37am

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What sort of TV are you wanting to use?

You may need a g/card with TV out capabilities and connect via the s-video socket or a composite cable.

A 9800pro will do this and be much much better than your 9800se (se on the end generally means poor performing card) Though personally I would go for the 6600GT with TV out, that is if your trying to limit spending a bit (about £150)

If you have cash to spare get what auto said! you will not be dissapointed.

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Reply #3 - Feb 4^th, 2005 at 9:51am

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Thanks guys....
need to raise some money...
had a look at some matrox cards... what do you think... And i doubt the x800 are avalible with a PCI connection.. Grin

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Reply #4 - Feb 4^th, 2005 at 2:08pm

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What mobo do you have?

If your using an AMD64 3400 as your sig suggests I woulda thought the mobo has either an AGP port or a PCI Express port.

If it only has a normal PCI port then your best bet would be the FX5200. I dont think there is much else out there for PCI.

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Reply #5 - Feb 5^th, 2005 at 11:43am

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Also depending on the TV you are planning to use it may not be as nice as it sounds. I dont know about a normal flat screen but from what i understand a LCD or Plasma are the only ones worth using. I hooked mine up to my 35 inch RCA and found it to be blurred and only good for picture viewing. Most people have probly found the same. I tried FS on it and gave up in about 2 seconds Undecided

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Reply #6 - Feb 5^th, 2005 at 1:52pm

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A CRT telly is ok for playing games on but no good for text.

In the UK (PAL) our screen resolution on the TV is 1024x768 or somthing along those lines. The American TV's (NTSC is it?) may run a lower res I think so will look worse still.

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Reply #7 - Feb 5^th, 2005 at 2:35pm

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I do have a AGP slot, but thought it wise to get a pci card with 2 monitor ports as then i could have 3 monitors Shocked

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I live in the uk but i doubt a TV with a res of 1024 is going to do much good for me as i play at 2048.. Grin

Some people i know had 2 40 inch tv's hooked up and the quality was great.. god knows how they did it..

Ive got tv-out and all that stuff..

I had a look on ebay for 'matrox' and theyve got a couple of the old 16mb 2 monitor port gpx cards on...
But what FPS could i expect... could i let the 9800se do most of the work??

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Reply #8 - Feb 5^th, 2005 at 8:14pm

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cVK,

The framerate with the old Matrox cards would not be that good. Your framerate will be determined by the slowest component in the video system. Likely that bottleneck will be the PCI bus running a PCI graphics card.... unless you are talking PCI Express Wink

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The new Matrox multihead AGP cards are often used in simpit construction. Look in the old messages in the "Homebuild Cockpits" forum for some stuff on Matrox and multi-monitor stuff. But be warned, the really good Matrox cards (they can handle 3 pretty fast outputs).....are not cheap.

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Reply #9 - Feb 6^th, 2005 at 6:37am

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Ive seen one on ebay with 4 monitor ports for around 300 quid...
Looked good but i cant afford to turn out that much money for a gpx card...
Ive found a solution anyways...

My dads buying a new computer soon.
so im gonne link it up as a server and stuff and buy a FX5200 256mb AGP card for it....

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