Can I use a VGA Card with a single DVI port and a single D-SUB port to drive dual monitors using W7.?
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Can I use dual monitors with a video graphics card that has only one D-Sub (old VGA monitor type) port (running to my PC monitor) and one DVI port (running to my TV)? Both the monitor and the TV accept this type of input. I was running a card with dual DVI ports and they worked fine but the card was very noisy (fan) and I found out it took less than 2 minutes to fry when I disconnected its fan and turned my PC back on! Now I'm using the D-Sub port for my monitor (takes both) but I need to buy a replacement card so I can go back to dual monitors (PC and TV). Basically I don't want any fan NOISE and I'm poor so I am hoping a bottom-of-the-line card with no fan and just a single DVI slot and single D-Sub slot will do. I do need to buy a replacement card but I want to know if it will work for dual monitors before I buy a non-dual card. Does anybody know if that will work or do I have to buy a replacement dual DVI card?
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Answer:
Any modern video card will have at least two ports and will drive at least two displays. That's a non-issue. Get something cheap like a Radeon 6450 if you're not playing games and you'll do just fine. You may need to use adapters depending on the card. A lot of them will have VGA, but you may need DVI -> VGA for one and HDMI -> DVI for the other if your TV doesn't have HDMI for some reason.
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You should be able to. I do/did on my old PC, put I only ran XP or Ubuntu on it. It has Geforce 6200 or the like. My new PC has VGA, DVI-D, and HDMI, and I can use any two of them at once. It is an AMD Fusion E350 system.
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