Beginner's Question: Adding a 2nd Monitor

Hello

I just got a new 22" monitor, which my Nvidia Quadro FX3000 is able
to drive without problems (I'm not a gamer - just regular office type
applications user).

Instead of eBaying my old 17" monitor, I thought maybe I can use it to
increase my monitor real estates. But when I hooked it up to the
second DVI port on the FX3000 card, everything just slowed down to a
crawl, obviously the card can't handle 2 monitors.

Do you think it would help If I installed a second PCI video card? I
don't have any experience building systems so I've no idea if that
would work. Also, my system manual says that I have slots of type:100
MHz/64-bit PCI-X, are these regular PCI, or PCI-Express-2.0, or PCI-
Express-x1, or PCI-Express-x16 ?

THANKS!

System Info: WinXP Pro. Dual AMD 248 Opteron. 2GB Ram. nvidia quadro
fx 3000

Try running the exhibitor pro,from microsoft,you'll find it under encoder
downloads.The software is specifically for running 2 or more monitors at
same time...

"chenHu68@gmail.com" wrote:

> Hello
>
> I just got a new 22" monitor, which my Nvidia Quadro FX3000 is able
> to drive without problems (I'm not a gamer - just regular office type
> applications user).
>
> Instead of eBaying my old 17" monitor, I thought maybe I can use it to
> increase my monitor real estates. But when I hooked it up to the
> second DVI port on the FX3000 card, everything just slowed down to a
> crawl, obviously the card can't handle 2 monitors.
>
> Do you think it would help If I installed a second PCI video card? I
> don't have any experience building systems so I've no idea if that
> would work. Also, my system manual says that I have slots of type:100
> MHz/64-bit PCI-X, are these regular PCI, or PCI-Express-2.0, or PCI-
> Express-x1, or PCI-Express-x16 ?
>
> THANKS!
>
> System Info: WinXP Pro. Dual AMD 248 Opteron. 2GB Ram. nvidia quadro
> fx 3000
>