How to have
2 Monitors
How To Hook Up Two Monitors to A PC
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hello everyone and welcome to the
breakdown today I want to be teaching
you guys how to set up two monitors like
that one and that one on a PC now I
would love to be like you do this and
then you do this and then it's done but
there's a ton of different PC
configurations out there and depending
on the graphics cards you have and all
that stuff there's tons of different
methods and tons of different things
you'll need to do is worse cables and
things of that nature so I'm gonna be
showing images on screen of basically
different pieces of PC hardware and
they're I up or to show you where they
go but before we jump on into the video
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now before we get into the PC itself you
need to look at your monitors right so I
would recommend getting two of the same
monitor if you're buying them together
if you're not that's fine you can use a
TV and a normal monitor if you want it
really doesn't matter the combination
but you need to look at both of them and
see what kind of ports they have for
example this monitor right here has a
DVI port a VGA port and an HDMI port
that is important because we know any of
those cables will work on this monitor
right any of them however you might have
another monitor that's not that way
it might only have it DVI and HDMI
whatever options you have make sure you
take note of those they're going to be
important later Before we jump into like
is the back of computers basically what
I want to say is this here on the screen
right now are the three most common
ports or cable types that you'll need
now you might not need all of these you
might only need two of one type but
you'll need at least two cords I'm
showing you this that way you know what
you're looking at on the back of your
computer and on the back of your
monitors it's important to know if you
don't know this you can't hook them up
because you're going to need the cables
I've got all these cables linked in the
description down below on Amazon so go
down there and check that out if you
want to buy those Amazon's typically the
way you get the best deal so it's all
linked down below we might have to get
into some converters I'm gonna have some
converters linked down below as well in
order for you to let's say your graphics
card only has a VGA and a HDMI out but
your monitor only has a DVI and VGA in
you'll need a VGA to DVI connector to
make that work as you can see this can
be a little bit complicated and that's
why you've ended up on this video and
that's why there's not one size fits all
solution so you figured out what goes
into your monitors now let's look at the
back of your computer now if you've got
a laptop this is really easy actually
just look at the sides of the port's
been you're gonna see some that look
similar to the monitor ports that you
have it might be an HDMI that's
typically what we see now some laptops
still have VGA I've never I don't think
seen one with the DVI but yours might
have one look at what you've got and
then go accordingly however if you've
got a desktop PC and I'm guessing most
of you do if you look at the back of
your computer you're going to see a big
long strip of ports there's gonna be USB
there there's probably gonna be a
Ethernet you're gonna have display ports
HDMI things like that but you're also
gonna have horizontal going down ports
like this now you might only have one
and if you have a dedicated graphics
card your PC either Nvidia or AMD you're
gonna be wanting to look at that those
vertical ports going down like this not
the big long IO strip on the back of
your motherboard the graphics card you
want to see what ports are on that
graphics card for example mine has an
HDMI and a VGA I believe whatever yours
has doesn't matter to see what it is
then you want to cross-reference that
with your monitors if the inputs are on
your monitors you're great for example
if one monitor has an HDMI and one has
the VGA
you're gonna go if they don't that's
when you start getting into converters
so let's say they both had HDMI well you
didn't want to get a VGA to HDMI
converter to use on your monitor that
way it would work now why do you want to
plug these into your graphics card the
reason is because that's the best
highest quality video output now what if
you don't have a graphics card what if
you're just running a PC that has a
motherboard and is using integrated
graphics well then you plug it directly
into the motherboard you might not have
two video ports there if you don't you
can use a splitter also link down below
to split that one HDMI or one VGA signal
into two different signals so yeah
that's how you could do that it's it's
crazy there's tons of different ways but
I hope this video kind of helped you out
and at least helped you figure out what
cords you're going to me
once you figure out the courts it's
simple as plug and play so nonetheless
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