Question:

Hi Tony,

I recently installed a Mad Dog dual monitor in a friend’s desktop computer so that he can run a different stock market program on each monitor. He would like to have 4 different monitors with different stock market programs running at the same time. Can this be done? He is running Win XP with a 2.6g processor and 1g of ram.

I would appreciate any info and advise you could give me.

Answer:

Yep, that’s just an Nvidia-based graphics card, and you can certainly support four monitors if you add another dual-monitor video card. Try to stick with the same model.

I will say, my productivity didn’t increase much with more than two monitors. Above two, I start forgetting which monitors have which windows–there was simply too much space for my brain to handle it all. After a while, I discovered I only used a couple of the monitors at once. Now, I’m back down from four monitors to two monitors.

If you’re curious what other people are doing with multiple monitors, check out the Ultramon forums.