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    How many video outputs?

    Hello experts!
    Can anyone tell me from their experience, can I have a TV out and TWO monitor outputs at the same time on the same card? Failing that, could I get a separate TV card and undock windows to that card, while still having both monitor outputs from the 'main' graphics card? I think I saw somewhere here that the first option does not work.....hopefully the second one will!

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    I haven't tried that but I seem to recall that when you select dual monitors the TV out is disabled. I use 3 video cards and 5 outputs. In windowed mode all undocked views will stay on the monitors just fine, however when I go to full screen mode I only have 4 of the outputs seen by FS9. The fifth with whatever is undocked goes to another screen. I'm using only 1 PC and NVidia cards.
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    Video cards only allow for 2 outputs per card regardless of plug type. So, 2 DVI or a DVI and a s-video/component out. Just get another card to run the tv out.

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    Thanks for the replies, guys. That both answers my question and solves my problem. And extra TV card should not break the back I think!

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    Nigel,

    I dont want to sound like im taking the pi** but its not a tv card you want, but a video card with tv out.. just so you are sure

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    Quote Originally Posted by MrRoper View Post
    Nigel,

    I dont want to sound like im taking the pi** but its not a tv card you want, but a video card with tv out.. just so you are sure

    Chris

    I agree and would be the best solution. You can get some old cheap ones

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    I think that if your video card has a TV out connector then you could connect both monitors to a matrox dualhead2ToGo. In this way both monitors are connected to one DVI and if connecting the TVOut disconnects the second DVI this would have no impact for you.

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    Quote Originally Posted by weyes View Post
    I think that if your video card has a TV out connector then you could connect both monitors to a matrox dualhead2ToGo. In this way both monitors are connected to one DVI and if connecting the TVOut disconnects the second DVI this would have no impact for you.
    True, but the DH2G is a bit more expensive than just picking up another video card.

    That being said, I do have 2 Digital DualHead2Go that I will probably be selling soon on ebay.

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    Re: How many video outputs?

    how do you get two video cards onto one motherboard? can you specify the model and brand of the graphic card and motherboard?

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    Re: How many video outputs?

    Quote Originally Posted by mabderezai View Post
    how do you get two video cards onto one motherboard? can you specify the model and brand of the graphic card and motherboard?

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    Any motherboard with multiple 16x PCI Express 2.0 mechanical slots. They are typically refered to as SLI or CrossFire capable motherboards. My particular motherboard has 4 Geforce GTX260 video cards in it. There are versions of motherboards that allow up to 7 video cards to be installed. The ASUS P6T7 WS and the EVGA 4X X58 Classified are the best of class in that category. 3 and 4 slot video card capable motherboards are quite common nowadays, although they do come with a price premium, as they are typically workstation or entheusiast class hardware.

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