Hi guys. So I've just bought some amazing new speakers and thought it would be a great opportunity to use my plasma as an extended desktop for watching movies and multitasking. I want to connect the plasma by VGA cable to my PC but I only have a DVI-I connection, which I know I could just buy an adapter for but I really would like the extended desktop for this set-up. I haven't had much experience with hardware but I want to install a VGA card on my PC as well. Will this allow me to run an extended desktop with the monitor on the DVI connection and plasma on the VGA? And am I even able to install a VGA card on my current setup which is a HP-09F8H motherboard: Picture here- http://img705.imageshack.us/img705/8541/pcinternal.jpg Thanks heaps
So right now you have a single port graphic card yes? then all you do is buy a dual port graphic card that is tv enabled,most would be these days i suspect,there's all sorts of configurations for graphic card,either dual vga,dvi+vga,dual dvi or dvi+hdmi or hdmi+hdmi etc etc,your mobo can only support one graphic card at any one time & this is why i have mentioned a single grpahic card with dual output ports
Great thanks, that's what I plan on doing. The only problem is that I have a low profile desktop. I have a GeForce 8400 GS at the moment but I can't seem to come across any dual port graphics cards which at the same height as the one I have which is it only one that will fit. I don't mind doing a case mod but do you know of any which will fit? Ideally with DVI-I and HDMI. Thanks heaps though
Hm, dxdiag told me that's the graphics card I had but I opened the case and had another look and it has an MSI label with not really any other references to go by but it is definately smaller than the 8400, the height of the card itself is the total height, nothing comes above that Edit- to clarify; the bracket is the part I'm interested in as all low profile cards I've looked at- the card itself is the 'low-profile' part when what I need is for the bracket to be no higher than the card itself. But it looks like I'm just going to have to cut the metal on the case that houses the bracket and possibly cut some plastic out of the case
Yeah there's different manufacturers that add their touch to the cards they supply so you get different names but the 8400 part will be there somewhere,the ATi card i have has three config types mines a power colour card my dads an ATi radeon,both cards are pretty much the same & have the same model number,tho there are differences in the drivers that run them
