Buying a pair of monitors for a single PC seems extravagant at first. But if you have started to work with the dual screen, you can notice that they are much affordable. An additional 22-inch flat panel monitor may cost less than $200. But the benefits you can reap can be seen only with your experiences.
Advantages
The possibilities to use two monitors are almost endless. The usage of two monitors at a time depends upon your task and the way you're working. While one monitor can be useful to check the e-mail, the other can be utilized to surf through the internet or to work on a document. Two documents can be kept upon open one on each monitor. You can copy the information between them. While one monitor can be used to edit photos or videos in the other monitor your photo files and video clips files can be kept open.
One widescreen monitor can be kept vertical which enables to see a lot of codes at one time. Since you have to scroll less, you'll feel relieved. The other monitor should be kept in the horizontal position to perform the other tasks. Programmers have designed programs so that they can spread their menus over the second monitor. Hence with a more screen place, a lot of options and controls can be made easier to use. Fun loving persons used to set up three monitors for playing games. While the center monitor can be used as the front window of your race car while the other two monitors one on each side of it can be used as side windows.
Increasing Efficiency
Depending upon your needs, you can select the size of the two monitors. Professional photographers prefer to have two large monitors. For persons who work with giant spreadsheets, one monitor should be large to show more rows and columns while the other can be a small one. If you prefer to have same size of an object in both the screens, you should select both the monitors with same size and resolution.
Setting two monitors for a single PC will be made easier by having the correct type of video card. New desktop PC's have a video card with two DVI video ports. If your PC has only one video port, you can replace it with a new card with two DVI ports. Laptops have a video port and hence it is easy to connect the second monitor to it. Thus a dual screen not only increases your productivity and efficiency but also you can experience a lot of fun.