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I need to build a low power consumption PC, and got stuck with the question:
If a I use a motherboard like: http://www.gigabyte.com/products/product-page.aspx?pid=3988#sp will I be able to use simultaneously 2 monitors ? I see the following on the specs:
1 x D-Sub port 1 x DVI-D port
Will they function with extended desktop mode ? Probably these are very simple questions, but I lost contact with hardware world 3 years ago, and the current setup is ( 6GB RAM, Radeon 4850x2, etc is eating a lot of money in electricity bills (~55 USD difference in electricity bill when I was away from home about 1 month ) , because all I do all day is code, no games, etc.
an important detail you should have included... what kind of monitors are you talking about? CRT? LCD? Right there, is a large difference in electricity consumption. For example... a standard 17" CRT monitor (like the KDS I have on the bench) can consume 140 watts, where the 17" LCD I use daily draws about 60 watts. Also, not every monitor is created equal... but CRT monitors do tend to consume more than LCD (Again, this all depends on the actual equipment). So right there is something you can look at. – Bon Gart – 2012-08-03T13:15:15.550
I'd assume if he was away from home, he'd turn off both monitors ;) – Journeyman Geek – 2012-08-04T08:56:18.800