How to Max Out a Dell XPS 600 and Your Credit Card - One monitor or two?
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As I said earlier, we ordered two 24" flat screen monitors for this computer. So let's open those boxes next.
These boxes actually have three distinct layers. The first layer has the cords and the books, the second layer has the monitor stand, and the third has the screen itself. Here's what I mean.
Taking a look at the back of our PC, we see that the video card has three connections. There is one S-Video connection and two DVI connections.
For some reason, Dell ships all of its monitors with the standard VGA wire attached. So I needed to swap the wires for both monitors before putting them together.
You can see in the above picture that all I had to do is unscrew the VGA cable, and then attach the DVI cable, which was graciously included in the box with the monitor. Then it's a matter of attaching the power cable, and putting the screen on the stand. Here's both monitors when all of that is said and done.
You will notice that the monitor on the right has one extra wire connected than the monitor on the left (the yellow arrow points to it). These monitors come equipped with built-in USB hubs and multimedia card readers. Since there are two monitors side by side, it was decided that only one of them needed to be used as a USB hub and card reader, which is why only one has that cable.
As you can see, there are 4 varied card slots, and 2 extra USB ports. Not too bad, for options.
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