Hi ya'll, A couple questions for the peanut gallery, since it's been so dead of late. (I assume everyone's been trading the hell out of the gold stocks!) I currently run MSWIN 9.1 RT using dual monitors and an older Matrox G550 dual-dvi card with two Viewsonic VG17b monitors using DVI. Because the video card has only 32 Mb memory, I'm getting increasingly slow response times with the video refresh as my RT charts get more complex. (The rest of the system is not in question; trust me...) 1. I'd dearly love to go to 4 digital monitors -- anyone have some leads on how to accomplish this using Windows 2000 without breaking the bank? 2. If I can't get to 4 monitors, anyone have a recommendation for a better AGP video card which will support dual-DVI? I've skimmed the specs on newer Matrox cards, but they don't seem to offer a whole lot of improvement, though I may have missed something. Thanks, Jim

Grazie on the NVIDIA Quadro line. Will check it out... Regards, jim

Vince, are you using WindowsXP or Windows 2000? I'd like to stick with Windows 2000, and prefer to use AGP or the new PCIe hardware because it's relatively faster; although I love the Radeon 9600 AIW I have on another machine.

Just grab any video cards with dual outputs ... as long as it is Nvidia or ati you will be fine ... It is not like you are playing video games with your pc ... Patrick :mrgreen:

Yes... infact, Hayseed has several posts about this type of setup. :D

Well... with the search index limping, we are all suffering together. Just post your questions here. Seems like we've talked about everything from several monitors, to one huge monitor, to projection systems. I'm sure someone can steer you in the right direction. My experience is with Nvidia graphics. The cards are top performers. While mine has dual video outputs, I only use one monitor. I can barely keep up with it! Anyway, when I hit the lotto, I'm getting a flat panel LCD that I can see from my living room sofa! 8:-)

Thank you Hayseed and G.stockman, and also Patrick

1) the difficulty in updating the data has nothing to do with the display so adding a dual video will work fine and will not slow down your computer. Recommendation for the data updating effienciency, the hard drive, buy one of the fastest hard drives on the market ... Maybe two SCSI and use a raid 0 ... 2) Yes ... 3) I have not used E-trade etc ... When you are dealing with display, 1,2, 3 monitors, your pc perormance are not critical, your video card is what matters ... Patrick :mrgreen:

hey spaceant.... you can add cards as long as there is the proper slot free in your computer.... as a rule there should be at least one slot free..... now days the box makers are having to cut costs to compete with dell so open slots might eventually go the way of the dodo bird and passenger pigeon's.... several people in the past have mentioned the cpu strain issue, patrick has mentioned some things to check such as your realtime files, i have not experinced that problem so can't be much help..... i've ran etrade on multiple panel displays with no problems other than the potential for metastock's alert's to hinder placing orders.... by that i mean no matter which side monitor metastock is on, the alerts take precendence on your main screen and must be checked off repeadtly..... or the alert removed.... that gets in the way of placing orders.... my solution is simply to run quotcecenter and meta on one multi-panel machine with etrade and option express running on another..... i have all types of computers , from the cheap-o hp's from walmart to the top line dells and those in between..... personally i can't see any difference between any of them when used for metastock, quotecenter or any of etrades platforms.... my situation allows for them, but multi-panel and multi-machines have not improved my trading in anyway..... meta however has kept me from trading extinction..... if ya know what i mean.......h