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Old 6th December 2004, 06:47   #1
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So here is the plan. I like being able to have my instant messangers open or music playing while I am murdering people on Halo, or whatever game I am into at the moment, but I cant because I dont want to minimize to change music or have messangers popping into the middle of battle. I thought this would be a kick *** mod.

I would like to attach a small 5-7 inch lcd to the side of the main monitor and run my music or maybe my messanger programs from it. Could this work. The setup would be easy enough, but I need help with the application. could I just run it like dual monitors and have my game on the main screen and the others on the small one? Thanks for any help guys.
 
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The performance may not be ideal unless it is dual-procs setup. Intel HT is just a better way to isolate portion of idle CPU for better use.
Others may have better inputs.
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the only way to do this is to have a device on your printer/com/usb port which allows you to send commands to the PC, and have a program running which can interpret them and change what you want accordingly.

there are all-in-one LCD/VFD screens out there with button control , and they should allow you to change Winamp tracks.

if you want to display winamp/msn in high res, then a small TFT would suffice, if room/space is no problem, go for cheapo 15" CRT
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So running it like dual monitors wont work. I can imagine that it I would need dual cpu's to run a game and msn etc. I was looking at some cheapy 15" LCD last night and maybe the way to go.
 
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"So running it like dual monitors wont work"

why not? MSN/Winamp does not take that much CPU power
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