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I want to buy a new monitor so i can have 2 monitors, but i first want to know if its possible with only one monitor slot on my case. Can you get like a splitter or something? Also, will my graphics card support 2 monitors?

Graphics card:    NVIDIA GeForce 7300 GS

Video: PC World - How to Set Up Multiple Monitors

Articles:
Microsoft - Two monitors are better than one
Multi-Monitor Guide - Required hardware and software

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Hardware requirements: one video card for each monitor, or a video card which supports 2 or more monitors.

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Thanks Chris.
I just had a look at my case and i found that i have 1 VGA conenction which is in use at the moment, and also 1 DVI connection. Can i connect a monitor up using DVI? or do i have to buy a special monitor that supports DVI?
EDIT: Ah thats sucks. I assume my video card doesnt support 2 monitors as its quite old

Well here is your graphics card, and it says:

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NVIDIA® nView Multi-Display Technology
Advanced technology provides the ultimate in viewing flexible and control for multiple monitors..

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Originally posted by Jimbo
I just had a look at my case and i found that i have 1 VGA conenction which is in use at the moment, and also 1 DVI connection. Can i connect a monitor up using DVI? or do i have to buy a special monitor that supports DVI?

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I believe you can get a VGA monitor, then get an adapter to change VGA-DVI? Not sure though. DVI supported monitors are widely available.

Edit: a DVI to VGA adapter should allow you to connect a VGA monitor to a DVI input, I think.

Edit2: THOMANN DVI/ VGA ADAPTER description:

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Adapter DVI(m) auf VGA(f), DVI-VGA adapter for connecting analog VGA displays to DVI Graphics Cards

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Which is what you need

Why? Most PC monitors these days are DVI, if you have a spare DVI output slot on your graphics card, all you need to do is buy a monitor with a DVI input(which should be most) and just leave your current VGA monitor in the VGA output.

Are you sure the VGA and DVI input will provide different output?

Chris quoted it should. I don't think i ever saw a graphicscard with more than one output (VGA/DVI) not capable of dual monitor.

Funny. I was just looking into something that has to do with this.

http://www.tigerdirect.ca/applications/searchtool....asp?EdpNo=1088606

This exact model might not be perfect; but solutions like that seem to exist. So if you get stuck; think about this.

he has two outputs

just get a DVI->VGA adapter or a DVI monitor. it'll work.

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Originally posted by albert
http://www.tigerdirect.ca/applications/searchtools/item-details.asp?EdpNo=1088606

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Expensive. You could get a fairly nice new GPU with two DVI outputs and S-Video for less than that.