Been using dual monitor since 2004 when I was at Uni. Our tech lecturer let me lend our uni's old and unused CRT, and my first dual monitor setup was with the FX5500 card. Granted it was only two 15" CRT at 1024*768 each but it was cool as no other students can fathom how it was done.

Now running dual monitor at workplace and triple monitor at home. The extra space is a must for work, especially during coding or photoshop

I was bored...

no you don't. Any low end processor and a low end graphic card can do dual output. I am using an RM99 HD5450 to power 2 extra monitors for my PC, and that is the cheapest card you can get in the market today

Half

Use windowed mode in your game

That would suck, especially in FPS and RTS gaming where you are moving your mouse outside the monitor boundary. Usually the executable will contain the mouse inside the game itself if it detects the edge, but if you say it won't pause the game, would that mean either
CASE 1:
in game, you cannot change monitor since the mouse is locked inside the executable region
CASE 2:
In FPS or RTS, if you move your mouse outside the monitor boundary, you leave the game and go inside another monitor, which would render teh game useless especially in RTS where you need to move the mouse to the monitor's border to move around the map

Z68 = onboard Intel = 2 additional output =p

box behind the first monitor

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Depends. AMD's Eyefinity is good for more than two monitors on one card due to it using a DisplayPort connector that has it's own clock, something that nVidia still don't have. Not only that, each monitor in an Eyefinity setup is independent thus you can use monitors with varying size or resolutions and mix them up and it will still work.

Nvidia on the other hand could only support two monitors per card, and 3 if you are using SLi (nVision mode). The problem with nVision is that you can only use 3 exact same monitors, and they are configured as one large monitor instead of 3 separate ones, something that for me is an issue as I don't want one large space, I just want multiple workspaces.

for graphic work, it's due to popular graphic softwares like the ones from Adobe are optimised to use nVidia's CUDA technology. But unless you are doing a very large graphic work or video editing involving a lot of HD vidz, the difference can't be detected in real life.

This post has been edited by DrBlueBox: Mar 6 2012, 03:11 PM

Yes. I am doing just that actually. GTX570 SLi --> main gaming monitor/Adobe Premiere, HD5450 --> 3 other monitors

Not really, since the HD5450 is not a powerful/power hungry card.