Connecting up 2 monitors - RTX 2080 Aorus Xtreme

[Jay85]

New monitor is on the way and after abit of pondering i think im going to try a dual monitor setup with the ultrawide at the bottom and the smaller 24" at the top/middle.

With regards to connecting them up, how should it be connected? I know it sounds daft but had a weird experience before where i connected dual monitors and somehow it messed up my drivers where windows went a weird colour and did all sorts of weird stuff.

My current monitor is a MSI Optix MAG241C 1080p 144hz 1ms
New monitor is a ultrawide iiyama 34" curved VA panel 1440p 144hz 1ms

Currently i have the MSI connected up to display port, should the new monitor be connected to display port and the msi connected to the second display port?

The back of the card has a total of 3 x display ports, 1 x usb c port, 3 x hdmi ports


Thanks for your help!

 

[martin363]

Hi, you should be able to connect to any of the available ports, whichever work best for the screens you have and the cables you have. Generally provided the monitors are turned on, they should automatically be detected in Windows.

 

[Jay85]

Hi, you should be able to connect to any of the available ports, whichever work best for the screens you have and the cables you have. Generally provided the monitors are turned on, they should automatically be detected in Windows.

Okay will give it a shot, just didn't want it screwing up the drivers again as it was a nightmare to get it working right again without a fresh install. God knows what happened!

 

[LeMson]

Just plug em in, set res and refresh, and which is primary and secondary in nvidia drivers.