Dual monitors on GTX 750 Ti?

[Sketti Tits]

Hello, I want to put dual monitors on my computer for school and watching streams and playing at the same time, accept I only have one GPU not including the integrated card. How can I put 2 HD monitors on my single card? The intergrated card is HD also. Thanks

[Air]

The GTX 750 Ti can support up to three monitors.

[Rumpelcrutchskin]

Should have plenty of HDMI or DVI sockets on your GTX 750 Ti for two or three monitors.

[Sketti Tits]

Originally posted by Rumpelcrutchskin:

Should have plenty of HDMI or DVI sockets on your GTX 750 Ti for two or three monitors.

Originally posted by Air:

The GTX 750 Ti can support up to three monitors.

I only have one HDMI port? is DVI HD? thanks

[Rumpelcrutchskin]

Yes, DVI is same quality as HDMI.

[Sketti Tits]

Originally posted by Rumpelcrutchskin:

Yes, DVI is same quality as HDMI.

thank you!

[Long Ago [Linux]]

You can use a DVI to HDMI cable or adapter (I am on GTX 750 Ti to HDTV) because I did not have a spare HDMI cable. DVI on a video card can usually do analog (VGA) or digital depending upon the plug or adapter, and the digital video signal is the same as HDMI.

DVI usually does not have the digital audio that HDMI has, but somehow they figured out how to do that and even my older GTX 550 Ti was able to do both video and audio through DVI to HDMI cable.

[_I_]

dvi on a gpu can support audio if using a dvi-d - hdim adapter

[MakoSipper]

Did you manage to do this? I have the same video card, with only one port. Not sure if a splitter cable does the trick... How did you do it?

[Sketti Tits]

Originally posted by MakoSipper:

Did you manage to do this? I have the same video card, with only one port. Not sure if a splitter cable does the trick... How did you do it?

Yes, currently I use a GTX980ti but it will work the same. You enter bios and you change your GPU config to primarily use the nvideo card, and I plugged the other two monitors into the integrated card. So, really my computer is using two completely seperate GPU's at the same time. After you do that you just have to configure your monitors with windows, or Nvidea's platform. Not sure what the exact words are for the bios part but just tool around and look for something that says PCIE (Default I think) or something like that and change it to dual cards/PCIE primary. Goodluck

[MakoSipper]

That sounds hard. But I actually got it all wrong. I only knew about 1 port (the DVI one) on my Nvidia card (it's the only one I have afaik... there's a VGA port on the back, but it doesn't work... maybe it's disabled).

My monitor uses VGA, and it's connected with an adaptor to the DVI port on my Nvidia card. There are 2 other ports there (hdmi and displayport).

Just checking: Does it mean I need a monitor with hdmi support in order to use this? And then I just plug it in and set it up in windows? I assume the my pc is set to user primarly my nvidia card. I checked the setup on the startup, and I couldn't find the word "BIOS" anywhere (it looks very modern for those setups). I did find something realted to video that was set to "PCI Express" instead of "Onboard", the only other option. Maybe that's it? lol

Sorry for my lack of knowledge and thanks for your help and patience!

[Sketti Tits]

Originally posted by MakoSipper:

That sounds hard. But I actually got it all wrong. I only knew about 1 port (the DVI one) on my Nvidia card (it's the only one I have afaik... there's a VGA port on the back, but it doesn't work... maybe it's disabled).

My monitor uses VGA, and it's connected with an adaptor to the DVI port on my Nvidia card. There are 2 other ports there (hdmi and displayport).

Just checking: Does it mean I need a monitor with hdmi support in order to use this? And then I just plug it in and set it up in windows? I assume the my pc is set to user primarly my nvidia card. I checked the setup on the startup, and I couldn't find the word "BIOS" anywhere (it looks very modern for those setups). I did find something realted to video that was set to "PCI Express" instead of "Onboard", the only other option. Maybe that's it? lol

Sorry for my lack of knowledge and thanks for your help and patience!

Ok so, I had this issue two that my monitors did not have the correct corresponding ports and cables. It might cost a little but but you just have to buy the cords to work; so HDMI to DVI maybe or VGA to DVI or whatever you may need.

In regards to the BIOS thing, you might be able to do it without BIOS now that I just don't know about, but as far as I know you have to enter BIOS like this and change the settings here. I will link a guide to enter BIOS below as it is different for every computer. That sounds about right but I will go look in my BIOS and see if I can find the exact words for the PCI/PCIE settings. I will edit in a sec.

Edit: Ok, so I looked I found the settings that I originally changed and took a picture with my phone. I can send it to you but I am not sure of the rules on this forums; can you post links here? If not I can PM it to you on reddit or whatever you want. Anyways, I have an Asus motherboard so my BIOS looks a little different but it should still be very similar and should help you out very much. Let me know

Edit 2: http://imgur.com/zuG8LCJ

[_I_]

only dvi-i can be adapterd to vga

if you are using a vga monitor yet throw it away and get a newer one

[Sketti Tits]

Originally posted by _I_:

only dvi-i can be adapterd to vga

if you are using a vga monitor yet throw it away and get a newer one

Ah didn't know that. Getting a new monitor would be the best choice obviosly, but is also expensive. Thanks for the info

[_I_]

look on ebay or craislist or ebay for dvi monitors
they are not expensive
(just make sure the responce time is 5ms or lower, else it will look ghostly)

[MakoSipper]

There's no way I'm getting TWO new monitors. I'm buying a single one, with hdmi. The other one (21.5", LCD, standard stuff, but just VGA, connected to DVI with an adapter) would be the secondary one. I just wanted to know this setup would ll work for extended dual monitors.

Also, you're allowed to post images. Use imgur or something like that.