You might also consider two video cards, one PCI and one AGP. I'm running a Geforce 3 ti 500 alongside a Geforce 2MX PCI; on my older system it was an ATI Rage Fury Pro alongside the Geforce 2MX PCI. Both scenarios worked wonderfully. Whatever you choose, go here for some great info and software:

http://www.realtimesoft.com/multimon/

-Doug

I have a evga geforce2mx twinview.
I love it.

thanks for the info guys. I have a geForce 2 MX evga twinview as well, I like it, but was thinking of putting it on a different PC, and getting a new one. I'll look into the suggestions. thanks!

Brian

I have a Matrox G400, no troubles, very good image, good drivers.

Bye

i bought one of the earlier matrox g400 dual head cards, but ended up sending it back for a refund, which matrox was nice enough to provide.

my problems under winnt/2k were:
1. i had 2 different monitors, one big, one not. with the drivers i had, you couldn't have independent resolutions or even refresh rates, which meant i was stuck in the highest settings my smaller monitor could handle, which was suck settings.

2. it didn't work like two separate cards do. win2k treats two cards as separate displays. i can put the task-bar on any one of 8 sides. i don't see any advantage to the 'stretched desktop' method that the Matrox card was forced to use, due to some limitation of win2k. (matrox told me win2k can't make their card run two independent displays because it would have to have two separate chipsets, which it doesn't)

3. many windows and dialogs popped up on the 'seam' between the two monitors, even with their option to alleviate this problem turned 'on'. this never happens with two separate adapters.

on the other hand, the drivers worked well. (aside from being very unfinished, but this was almost 2 years ago)

and it was a MAJOR pain to find two adapters that would work together in Win2k without freezing up, or being corrupt in some strange way.

i've found that any NVidia card will work with my dinosaur of a secondary adapter, a Matrox Millenium II. i keep my second monitor at 800x600 and my primary at 1600x1200. it's cool to be able to develop stuff on the 800x600 cuz it's like zooming in. you can stick the vegas preview window on there, and DV is like full screen. framerate is slightly worse though... i think it's a directX thing. and cuz the matrox is pci, and old.

good luck. curious if they fixed any of those problems.

- ben (cheesehole)

Cheesehole, I have a G450 and had the same complaints as you. However, I downloaded their latest drives and about 95% of the problems are taken of. You can have different resolution/color depths for each monitor. You can stretch the task bar across both, or confine it just the first monitor. Also, its very easy to enable/disable the second monitor (most of the time I leave mine of).

I got a Matrox G550 for $120 and couldn't be happier.

-Jeremy

Very easy to disable it. In fact, you can store these settings as "desktop schemes." Three clicks, and it's changed. You can even assign Windows hotkeys to do it. No reboot.

I don't see how to stretch the taskbar, though.

I have to try the "dualhead zoom" feature, though. That could be a big timesaver, especially with hotkeys to toggle it on and off.

-Jeremy

Cheesehole,

The new (7 month old) drivers have all of your problems resolved.

Two monitors with diferent reolutions, diferent color deep, diferent refresh rates.

Bye