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dragon · 24-05-2010, 21:37

I had a PCI HD2400 256MB radeon card sitting in a Atom Base Mini-ITX machine, but I found even with the video card the atom was useless at playing a lot of video.

Someone recently gave me another 14" monitor so I thought I might plug my It back into my Main Desktop Pc and get rid of the Atom as I often find when working on the main Pc I always want more open than i have screen for.

Turns out I can fit 2 14" monitors and my 19" one on my desk quite nicely so what i've done at the moment is put the HD2400 In my desktop PC

Which leaves me with the situation I'm currently in where I have my Nvidia GT240 driving my Primary display a Hanns.G HW191D (bit old now but still) and then the HD2400 driving the 2x 14" displays.

I could have done it with the GT240 driving 2 of the displays but my logic was games would tend to only use the Primary display anyway so if my primary display was on the faster video card I wouldn't suffer much of a performance hit. (not that I play that many games or i'd have used a better GPU)

Is there any sense in that or should i disable the HD2400 before i start running games?

24-05-2010, 21:37	#1
dragon Inactive Join Date: Jan 2004 Posts: 3,898	performance multimonitor/video card? I had a PCI HD2400 256MB radeon card sitting in a Atom Base Mini-ITX machine, but I found even with the video card the atom was useless at playing a lot of video. Someone recently gave me another 14" monitor so I thought I might plug my It back into my Main Desktop Pc and get rid of the Atom as I often find when working on the main Pc I always want more open than i have screen for. Turns out I can fit 2 14" monitors and my 19" one on my desk quite nicely so what i've done at the moment is put the HD2400 In my desktop PC Which leaves me with the situation I'm currently in where I have my Nvidia GT240 driving my Primary display a Hanns.G HW191D (bit old now but still) and then the HD2400 driving the 2x 14" displays. I could have done it with the GT240 driving 2 of the displays but my logic was games would tend to only use the Primary display anyway so if my primary display was on the faster video card I wouldn't suffer much of a performance hit. (not that I play that many games or i'd have used a better GPU) Is there any sense in that or should i disable the HD2400 before i start running games?