My largest monitor says that it is best to be viewed with a dual graphics card installed and I must have a dual graphics card installed to view multiple monitors (the smaller for input, larger for output) correct.? I do not see a graphics card any where on this configuration, is that a problem.? if so, can I have a graphics card seperatley installed.?
My Components
PROCESSORS Intel® Core™i7-920 Processor(8MB L2 Cache, 2.66GHz) edit
OPERATING SYSTEM Genuine Windows Vista® Home Premium Edition SP1, 64-Bit edit
WARRANTY AND SERVICE 1Yr Ltd Hardware Warranty, InHome Service after Remote Diagnosis edit
MEMORY 12GB Tri-Channel DDR3 SDRAM at 1066MHz – 6 DIMMs edit
HARD DRIVE 640GB Performance RAID 0 (2 x 320GB SATA 3Gb/s 7200 RPM HDDs) edit
OPTICAL DRIVE Dual Drives: Blu-ray Disc (BD) Burner (Writes to DVD/CD/BD) and DVD+/-RW edit
MONITORS 20 inch SP2009W Widescreen Flat Panel Monitor edit
ADVANCED DISPLAY Dell Ultrasharp 3007WFP-HC 30-inch Widescreen Flat Panel LCD Monitor edit
HARDWARE SUPPORT 3Yr Ltd. Warranty- Advance Exchange edit
MONITOR ACCESSORIES MSP-DCCFWG110B Height-Adjustable Dual Arm Wall Mount edit
DELL ULTRASHARP 3007WFPHC Dell High Color 30 inch UltraSharp Widescreen Digital Flat Panel edit
VIDEO CARD ATI Radeon HD 4850 512MB edit
SOUND CARD Integrated 7.1 Channel Audio edit
SPEAKERS No speakers (Speakers are required to hear audio from your system) edit
TV TUNER Hauppauge HVR1250 hybrid TV Tuner with Remote Control edit
KEYBOARD Dell USB Consumer Multimedia Keyboard edit
MOUSE Dell Premium Laser Mouse edit
BLUETOOTH AND MEDIA READER Dell 19 in 1 Media Reader with Bluetooth edit
FLOPPY & MEDIA READER Dell Media Card Reader included in Dell Bluetooth Package edit
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ANTI-VIRUS & SECURITY McAfee SecurityCenter with anti-virus, anti-spyware, firewall, 15-months edit
OFFICE SOFTWARE No Productivity software pre-installed edit
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REMOTE ACCESS Dell Remote Access, free basic service edit
DATASAFE ONLINE BACKUP Dell Online Backup 2GB for 1 year edit
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MODEM No Modem Option
Studio XPS Studio XPS featuring Core i7 processors
Adobe Software Adobe® Acrobat® Reader 9.0 Multi-Language
Network Card Integrated 10/1000 Ethernet
Labels Windows Vista™ Premium
That list does specify a graphics card– An ATI Radeon HD4850.
The HD4850 does indeed have a dual-link DVI port and it will work with the Dell 3007WFC monitor.
I would recommend against RAID-0. Just one HDD in the RAID setup develop a problem, you lose the whole array.
I wouldn’t bother with the Hauppauge TV tuner either. It can only tune into standard-definition channels and unencrypted ClearQAM/ATSC HD channels. There are no TV tuner/capture cards out there right now that can tune into QAM-encrypted premium HD channels like Discovery HD, CNN HD, HBO HD, etc.