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OK, I'm a newbie here, but my school has a Final Cut Pro computer(does video editing exclusively) sitting there and 2 screens connected. I want that at home. I don't know if my GF2MX card can handle it, I only have VGA screens...can a ADC to VGA make me have one screen picking up where the other looses the picture? I basically want to have 2 screens to get more stuff in there.

Does anybody know if this is possible with my current card or if I will need a new one. If I need a new one, could you please tell me which cards give stunning graphics, do this and is relatively cheap?
 
How many plugs are there on the card, and what sort? That's a good place to start, obviously...

If your card can't do it, and you have room for more PCI slots, then you can get a PCI video card, and just have two in there. That's what I have done with my G3; the second card is a cheapo ATI bottom-of-the-line card from a couple of years ago. I don't use it for 3D games or heavy graphics work or anything, so it's fine for me.
 
Hmm, that's interesting. I really couldn't say what that particular card can do. Have you looked at the maker's website?

Anyway, if that doesn't work, and if you have room for another single-head card, that would likely be cheaper than buying a new dual-head card.
 
Got 4 slots open, 1 is reserved for a better sound-card somewhere down the line. What I wanted to know is if that would work and in which case who I'd tell the Mac where the other screen was placed and how bit it is...
 
Oh, that's no problem - it's autodetected that there are two monitors. Open the display control panel, and one panel appears on each screen, for size, colour adjustment, etc.

One of the tabs in the control panel is called something like 'alignment'. That lets you drag around the pictures of the screens to their real-world positions, so things are displayed right. That was a bad explanation, but it takes less time to do than it took me to explain it.
 
This is useless to reply to(since I'll try anyway:) ) but is VooDoo 2 cards supported? I'm not at home right now, but I almost got out of bed at 3AM tonight just to try. I have that in my PC...there's no solution as good as the free one.
Also, I have an old monitor with max resolution 640x480...will this solution allow me to run different resolutions for different monitors?
 
I was pretty sure that all the video adapters on the newer powermacs supported dual displays...

If it doesn't... it's as simple as tossing any other pci video card in there...

I was looking on ebay this morning for old RAGE 128 cards and they go for about 50-75 dollars...

Mac video cards are -not- cheap. Someone could make a killing for putting out some solid 2d cards with minimal 3d for cheap...
 
You can get an ATI Radeon 7000 PCI card, and that card can support two displays just by itself. That way, with the video card you already have and the Radeon 7000, you can have THREE monitors on your system. Two would be plugged into the Radeon 7000, and one would be plugged into your original card.

This is, of course, assuming that you're using monitors with a VGA-style connector. Apple ADC monitors won't work.

The best part of this is that the card is around $120, and it's a damn good card too. I've got two monitors on my G4 right now, and I wonder how I ever did without.
 
In Norway, a Radeon 7000 card is not around $120 ;)
Try to search for one at ebay, voice-, or a GeForce 2MX card or something.
Nope, the Voodoo 2 is not compatible, there aren't even OS X drivers for them. Apple only supports new Nvidia and ATI cards.
 
It's OK now, a friend of mide(dual 1Ghz, the bastard:mad: ) is getting a new second screen card, so I'll buy an old one off of him. It only does 640x480, but so does the monitor I wanna hook up:)
 
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