I have a ATI Radeon™ HD 3600 Series which has 1 gig of RAM and it's about 3 years old and it's a pretty good card but I just want to go up one notch on my video card and get a dual card so I can hook up 2 monitors. I want of take my pictures from one screen one put them in the other screen for more screen space. What would you recommend. In the last 5 years I guess they are all PCI Express slots.
Unless you have some non standard version of the card (3450 or 3650?), you don't need a second card for a second monitor. Don't think there has been a video card made in a long while that can't run two monitors, using two of usually three ports (VGA, DVI, HDMI, in some combination) on the card.
Let's see if I can say this nicely, I wouldn't trust the fools at Geek Squad to change a light bulb let alone take advise from or let then touch a computer.
If the card has a DVI and a VGA port on it (and it will have wither a HDMI port or a s-video port as well), then it is more than capable of running two monitors from the DVI and VGA ports.
The only way you can't run two monitoes on cards with a DVI, VGA and HDMI port is to try and run them both off of of the VGA and HDMI port. Other than that any combination of DVI-VGA or DVI-HDMI will work.
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