P.R.S. Sivakumar . Posted September 11, 2007 Share Posted September 11, 2007 Hello everybody I have often come across in the forums that several of you are using two monitors. What is the advantage? How do you set up two monitors? There is only one monitor connection outlet in the CPU. Can somebody give me a link where I can see the advantages of two monitors? Thanks in advance With best regards PRSS Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
charter Posted September 11, 2007 Share Posted September 11, 2007 To have twice as much working space, its as simple as that. I work with MAX on one screen, photoshop / Autocad on the other and would not have it anyother way beats mucking about with Alt- Tab any day of the week! Most decent High end graphics cards will have duel output i run an ATI fire 7350 which is fantastic and will handle anthing i can through at it! So do it.... ( unless your desk is too small!) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Arnold Sher Posted September 11, 2007 Share Posted September 11, 2007 actually our whole office runs on dual 19 inch flat screens. Its awesome as we use one screen for modelling and another screen for all the tablets, modifiers. It just speeds things up as opposed to moving stuff out of the way in order to see what you are doing. PC does come with only one serial outlet for a single monitor but if you buy a decent video card that usually comes with another one so you are able to set up a dual monitor. I definetely highly recomend it.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
luckytohaveher Posted September 11, 2007 Share Posted September 11, 2007 Because, as much as I hate to admit it, size matters. It is all about real estate. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
P.R.S. Sivakumar . Posted September 11, 2007 Author Share Posted September 11, 2007 Thanks for the quick reply. Do you mean oto say that you have the command panel on one monitor and only the editor screen on the other one? - in 3ds Max? What about AutoCAD? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mitchrichie Posted September 11, 2007 Share Posted September 11, 2007 I use my main one for Maya and the secondary for displaying cad plans. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rotten42 Posted September 11, 2007 Share Posted September 11, 2007 dual monitors are nice but it also comes down to your work-flow in how you set it up and also depending on the program. Some programs I have span both screens while others I use one screen for the workspace and the other monitor for the tool bars. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
neil poppleton Posted September 11, 2007 Share Posted September 11, 2007 Two monitors are good, but I have just installed my 3rd monitor and its brilliant........................................................................................................................................................................................... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JamesTaylor Posted September 11, 2007 Share Posted September 11, 2007 Two monitors are good, but I have just installed my 3rd monitor and its brilliant........................................................................................................................................................................................... now come on... stop showing off Neil!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Koper Posted September 11, 2007 Share Posted September 11, 2007 3rd one for watching movies!?? or what? unfortunately I went back to one monitor when I got hired as the company only believe in the use of one (3d dep.), but we are slowly getting wide screens. as for speed, in max, hit ctrl-x and learn how to work in this expert mode without any menus (except right-click), you'd be surprised of fast it goes. i agree, it would be nicer to have the cad drawings open on a second screen, but working with 2-4 drawings at the same time will also slow down just as much as alt-Tabing. The thing is, some programs are just (automatically?) made for dual-screens, such as combustion, (combustion automatically splits workspace over 2 monitors if you have it) ranting over:o on your screen card you will get the normal (svga?) socket (the one all pc monitors use and you know how it looks) then for the second you get a socket with loads more pins, and it doesn't resemble the (svga?) socket. all you need is a converter from that socket to the (svga?) one, which you can get at any pc dealer. I don't know but maybe the new cards now come with 2 (svga?) socket. (svga? - is that right ?? please correct me someone!) ps. if you can use two monitors, do it!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jeff Mottle Posted September 11, 2007 Share Posted September 11, 2007 When I was in Spain I visited a studio and they all had dual 30" Dell monitors. I went from dual 19" to a single 30" and found it just a good and sometimes better. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
P.R.S. Sivakumar . Posted September 12, 2007 Author Share Posted September 12, 2007 Hello everybody! Thanks for all the replies. I shall try out two monitors - will come back if there is any difficulty. Thanks once again With best regards PRSS Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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