Dualhead video card

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hello i know little about video cards and im after a video card to support 2 monitors which ill use for graphic design etc. but i still wanna play games using one monitor (war3, CS etc) so it has to also have to able to run these smoothly. i currntly have a single gforce2 64mb and want something better than that for games. and of course has to support 2 monitors for work stuff. i cant seem to work out what nvidiea video cards support dual monitors from the website. does anyone have any help on a good video card i can get for my needs. any help be much appreciated.

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Almost all of the newest video cards from both ATI and Nvidia support dual displays and some even more depending on how you do it.

Goes like this: Any mid- to high-end video card has outputs for both analog VGA (the 15-pin dsub we're all familiar with) and newer "DVI" output designed for LCD panels.

The signals from a DVI port can, however, be easily converted to analog VGA for use with a regular connector and in fact most video cards come with such an adapter. And on most video cards that have these two ports they are seen as seperate video devices.

The Nvidia Geforce ti4000 and fx5000 series supports this as well as the newer ATI Raedeons, or at least their chips do -- it also depends on how the card manufacturer wants to have things configured.