2 different monitor and resolution displays?

I have the EVGA Geforce 9600GT 512 MB PCI express graphics card and wanted to now if I can hook up 2 different LCD TV's and have them be running at same time but at different resolutions and have my full desktop displayed on both at same time?
 
Here is why:
 
1. Media center computer hooked up to 2 seperate LCD TVs in house. However, one of them can display a higher resolution than the other, which I would like to use since it's capable of doing it (I believe its 1900 x 1200? res.) and the other one can only go up to 1360 x 720).
 
2.  What I want is:  media center computer is on, but both tv's are off.  I decide to watch a movie on 1 tv downstairs (the 1900 x 1200 res. tv) , so I turn on that tv and choose VGA input to see my computer desktop....select and watch movie.  Now 1/2 way through I want to watch rest on other tv display upstairs (1360 x 720), so I turn downstairs tv off, turn on upstairs tv and select VGA input and finish watching it at the lower/different resolution.
 
2. I wouldn't be using them both at same time, but right now I have to manually switch it back and forth to which display I want to watch a movie on as I can't seem to get my desktop to run on both screens at same time. (right click properties...choose display...etc)
 
3.  Will my desktop show up on both tv's at same time? but at different resolutions?
 
4.  If I have to, I guess I can still do same resolutions on both tv's but just "extending" the desktop doesn't give me control of the desktop on the 2nd tv it seems.
 
5. Should I get 2 graphics cards to do this?
 
Thank you in advance for any help
 
 
 
 

while you can't really do both at once just by wishing or even hooking them up like that (it'll probably confuse the card to no end) you can probably dump it into a video splitter (the boxes tv stores use to connect multiple tvs to a single source like a dvd player, etc) and they come in many formats (rca jacks, hdmi, component, etc) and you set one resolution and it dumps to the box, which then would show on whatevers on, regardless.

option 2: if you're running the tv as the main monitor, you can setup a hotkey i think, to toggle which one is the main monitor (both would have to have individual resolutions set for them) and then you'd just have to hit the key/remote button (if you've got one and configged it right) and it'd toggle over, in theory.

keep in mind as well, there are length limits to a lot of cable specs, so you may or may not run into issues if you don't already have things working okayish.

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have you ever dual screened before? i have a monitor and a 42 plasma hooked up to my comp. monitor runs 1650x1050 tv runs 1920x1080.

Dont set ur dual screen in windows properties use the nvidia control panel under the multiple monitor section

Yes the screens will take individual settings just like it would by itself

One screen will be your primary screen and that screeen will have the start menu and desktop items

I dont know... I know on my 7900gs I could have 2 full desktops and still use the start menu from both but I cant do that on my new comp. Altho on windows 7 my other comp can do it using a similar gtx260.

If you have two cards you will either sli them so they work together or set 1 to phys-x and 1 to normal vga or only use 1 at a time so having two wont help at all. You can dual screen with sli (i donno if you can with the 9600gs but some cards can) but only 1 screen will have the benefits of sli (called sli focus its always on the primary)


Are you connecting these tvs though digital (white connnector), analog (blue connector) or using a dvi to hdmi converters? 9600gs is more of a workstation card so im assuming it has 1 dvi and 1 analog. I own a 9600gs but I dont remember what it has lol.