I just bought a new 27" monitor, should be delivered Monday. On my desktop system I currently have a 24" monitor which I'll pair with my new monitor. I have an nVidia GeForce 8600 GT video card with 512 MB memory, one DVI port and one VGA (d-sub) port. I have a Gigabyte GA-Z77X-UD3H motherboard with onboard video and a DVI port. I have 4 gigs RAM, core i5 cpu, running Win 8.1 64-bit. I do not play games on this system.
Eventually I'll get a new video card with two DVI ports but that will be a while yet. Until then, rather than use the video card for both monitors, which means one would be on DVI and one VGA, would it be better to put one monitor on the video card DVI port and the other on the motherboard onboard video DVI port?
Also, if I do this, how much memory should I allocate to the onboard video? Options are 32 MB to 1024 MB.
Thanks!
Edit: Just to be clear, I'm pretty sure my mb will allow this. What I'm really wondering is if this will give me a better display on the secondary monitor using dvi rather than vga connection.
Eventually I'll get a new video card with two DVI ports but that will be a while yet. Until then, rather than use the video card for both monitors, which means one would be on DVI and one VGA, would it be better to put one monitor on the video card DVI port and the other on the motherboard onboard video DVI port?
Also, if I do this, how much memory should I allocate to the onboard video? Options are 32 MB to 1024 MB.
Thanks!
Edit: Just to be clear, I'm pretty sure my mb will allow this. What I'm really wondering is if this will give me a better display on the secondary monitor using dvi rather than vga connection.