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I hear a lot of new schools are taking up Progresso for its flexibility, simplicity and very quick implementation time.

Thanks for all your help guys, very much appreciated. So as I understand it, if I decide not to purchase an exact same model of existing card, I should at least ensure its from the same manufacturer (in my case Nvidia). I am not going down the route of a USB adapter, although I see their uses, so I think its best to pick up a cheap nvidia PCIe card and chuck it in and see what happens, remembering I am only hooking up an old 15inch TFT which I will just use for displaying my email. If no joy with this then I like the idea of a quad head card. Thanks again.

Thanks for that and whilst I understand exactly what you are suggesting, given I have a pretty reasonable card already and spare slots do I really need to 'scrap' what I have and buy what is more likely to be quite an expensive new card? Other people online do suggest that a simple addition should suffice and I have no plans to do any 'fancy' gaming. The key thing for me is to establish whether I should be able to run two different models of cards alongside each other ie nvidia quadro 'xxx' and an nvidia GeForce 'yyy'

Hi guys, hopefully someone more experienced can help here? I haven't got precise spec of hardware here but will provide later if necessary. I currently run an HP XW6600 twin quad core with 16GB RAM and 2x 250GB drives. I have a graphics card (and for the life of me I cant remember what it is, I have an inkling it might be an FX4700?? with 512MB) with two DVI outs and both are connected to 23 inch HD AOC widescreen monitors (using VGA/DVI convertors) and these run perfectly well. What I now want to do is add a third monitor (initially an old 15 inch Dell that I have kicking around) so I will need to purchase another GPU. I have plenty of PCI-e slots so that is fine and I have done a bit of googling and now it seems it might be more complicated than I expected(???) Now I'll get to my queries: 1. Does my second card need to be the same brand as the first? 2. Online, people have spoken about SLI which means nothing to me, should I be concerned about this? 3. Is there anything I should bear in mind when purchasing the second card, other than what applications I plan to run? (FYI I am a very rare PC gamer (have a PS3 for that) so most use will be MS Office inc Outlook, web browser(s) and a few other graphically low-demanding programs. 4. As I mentioned I currently use VGA cables with a converter, if I switch to DVI leads am I likely to notice an improvement in quality? Thanking you in advance edugeekers! James

Cheers guys, for the moment I have just removed all evidence of AMD and it's done the trick, not wanting to do a complete rebuild at the mo. Thanks again.

No, it was all set up when it came. I just turned it on and hooked up the monitor. Ok, I can google the drivers for the card as I know what model it is. How do I check the specifics on my motherboard chipset so I can google the right drivers?

Hi guys I have just purchased a new 'old' machine and each time I turn on I am presented with a message relating to the graphics configuration. See attached. I have also included the view of CCC. I have no idea what it means. I have checked Device Manager in control panel and I can't see anything there. I am not particularly experienced with graphics, I usually just stick with basic on board stuff. If it helps my setup is: HP xw6600 Win7 Pro (64) NVIDIA Quadro FX 4600 AOC LED display linked by VGA lead to DVI via adapter Can someone perhaps shed some light??? Thanks in advance.