[4D(Fordy(Ford) Ollie]

Ok, so I'm hoping to completely refresh my monitor setup.

On my desk I want 2 monitors exactly the same, roughly around the 20" marker, probably 19" using my graphics card dual monitor capability.

However I also want a High Definition 32" Samsung on my wall, displaying the same as the secondary monitor on my desk.


My issue is resolution.
I'd have to use a splitter to get from one DVI output on the GPU card (the second output) to two, one for the desk and one for the wall, so that they'd show the same.

However the HD screen on the wall would obviously want a much higher resolution than the desk one would be capable of.

So is my scenario possible at all?

What response would a Standard Definition widescreen monitor have to a 1080p resolution? Would it be able to correctly scale it down allowing it to show something more suited to it? Or would it have a nervous brakedown?

I had decided the desk ones should also be widescreen (although I didn't initially wnat them to be) because I thought that would probably help the situation, seeing as the HDTV would obviously be widescreen so I'd want to use a 16:9 resolution on it, so as not to look silly.

Thanks, I'll add links to the two types of monitors on the bottom, please don't comment on the prices, it's not the cheapest, just the first google result.

Samsung wall-mounted Full-HD widescreen
Dell 18.5" SD Desk jobbies widescreen also (2)

[Razer]

Just get a 1080P monitor.. The resolutions would be the same then across all screens and you shouldn't see a problem.

Monitors have always been higher resolutions than TV's so if you have a graphics card you can pretty much guarantee that you can easily put out a 1920x1080 resolution.

[4D(Fordy(Ford) Ollie]

That doesn't quite solve the situation though, because my graphics card is capable of it, it's HD and everything, but I want 2 regular definition monitors PLUS a HDTV, I can't afford 3 HD screens.

The ones I linked too are what'll be using but I need to know if I can successfully display the same image on a HD 32" and a SD 18.5" with sensible resolutions on both?

[Razer]

Those monitors are pretty good but you don't need 1000:1 contrast and Dell ones are always expensive. You could pick up a 22" monitor capable of 1920x1080 for probably £150 each, might be expensive but worth it! I have noticed though that the brightness is pretty low..

As far as the resolutions go, I'm sure you can. It becomes a very wide resolution though, my friends is 2464*900. You should be able to set the resolutions independently, I could on my laptop but that was for 2 screens. If you put the TV on one and the 2 monitors on the second output with a splitter then you should be fine =)

[4D(Fordy(Ford) Ollie]

Yeah I know it would work OK like that, but the trouble is I need it like this:
Channel 1........................Channel 2
Primary Dell..................Secondary Dell
HD Samsung

So the issue will be that I can only have one resolution for the two DIFFERENT screens...

As I'd need to set the resolution in HD for the samsung, and I'll just have to hope that the Dell can downscale it or something I guess...

[Razer]

A friend of mine (Registered on here, goes by the name AfterShock) said it is possible but I'd do some intense research first before you get an expensive problem.

[4D(Fordy(Ford) Ollie]

Thanks for the input,

I'll try it out anyway and if it doesn't work I'll do something like use a lower resolution on the HDTV so it's surrounded with a black frame, which'd be annoying but at least it'd work.

It'll take a couple of months to get the funds together and order it in and that but when it's done I'll get back on this thread and enlighten the world on whether this works or not!

[Razer]

Sounds like a plan dude. Hope it works out!

[4D(Fordy(Ford) Ollie]

Thanks :biggin:

I'll try it like the plan already is first...

But after sleeping on it I wondered if what I'm trying to do is one of the benefits of SLI or XFire?
I'll only go there though if it doesn't work on a single graphics card, dont want to spend more on 2 new cards as my current one doesn't support SLI

[Razer]

I think in SLi and Xfire the graphics card power is combined to create a more powerful graphics processing unit, I think the extra cards ports are disabled while in it's multi card mode but I'll have to look it up..