[UK-CONTEST] dual monitor?

[Jim Martin]

Steve
I use a basic  PCI video card (cost about £12) and it works great.  I 
normaly use the extra screen when running SO2R RTTY with N1MM. This info may 
be useful  http://pages.cthome.net/n1mm/html/English/TwoMonitor.htm
73
Jim,  MM0BQI

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> [mailto:uk-contest-bounces at contesting.com] On Behalf Of Steve Bunting
> Sent: 03 March 2007 23:01
> To: uk-contest at contesting.com
> Subject: [UK-CONTEST] dual monitor?
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> Hi Folks,
>
> I am thinking about using dual monitors on my contest PC to give extra
> screen real estate for N1MM. Does anyone think it is worth the effort?
>
> From reading around, it seems that you don't need a dual head card and
> that XP will do this with an extra PCI graphics card installed. I have a
> spare monitor and graphics card, so I had a go at getting this to work,
> but it seems that any old PCI card is not enough. Does anyone have any
> ideas what the "entry level" graphics card is for the dual monitor
> system? It seems the gamers pay a fortune for graphics cards but clearly
> the performance would be wasted on a contest PC and I am not prepared to
> pay that anyway. What should I be looking for?
>
> As this is more of a PC question than a contest one, I should perhaps
> invite replies off list.
> 73
> Steve
> M0BPQ
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