Looking to build a home cockpit but

[flyinpilot212121]

Hello all,Im very new at this home cockpit building stuff and have been thinking very seriously about building one(Not to expensive or fancy, just something to add a little more realism, plus the funds are sparse LOL)My first step is hooking up another monitor, which brings me to my question. Im using a 256 mb card and also have my onboard graphics controller which Im thinking of adding a monitor to it. First off, is a onboard chip capable of running a monitor for MSFS along with the one hooked up to the Nvidia and is there a special program I need to do so?Another thing I'd like to know is, for those that have multiple monitors, what do you put(as instruments or windows) in each monitor, ex: one monitor is outside and one is inside?Thanks alot.P.S does adding another monitor have a significat impact on frames?

[rudder]

Good morning, I run 3 monitors on my comp. I use 3 video cards to do this with. You must disable the on board chip if you use cards. I run radios and gps on one, and the cockpit view on another. If i run outside views on both the frame rate suffers. If you search his forum you will find a lot of info on this subject. Have a good day.

[Guest stevelep]

Which graphic cards do you use ?BOB

[rudder]

Bob, I have the following cards , these may be older cards, but at the time I set them up they were good cards, NVIDIA 440, NVIDIA 400 and NVIDIA TNT 64 Pro they still work fine with windows xp.