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Select the monitor you’d like to serve as your main display (which will also determine where your taskbar and Start button appears). Click Identify, which will cause a large number to appear on each of your displays, so you can determine which screen is which. Here, you can confirm that all your monitors are detected. This will take you to a screen where you can configure the options you have for multiple monitors in Windows. If you’re running Windows 7 or Windows 8, right-click on the desktop and click Screen resolution in Windows 10, click Display settings.

The first thing you’ll want to do is configure Windows to play nicely with your multiple monitors. If not, you may need to purchase an additional graphics card to get the multi-monitor support you’re looking for.īefore you buy an extra graphics card, you’ll need to make sure you have enough space in your tower (and open PCIe slots), as well as a power supply unit that can handle the extra strain.

If your graphics card supports-and has enough ports for-the number of monitors you want to set up, excellent. Most modern graphics cards, like this EVGA GeForce RTX 2060 KO, can power several displays simultaneously. The best way to find out whether your graphics card supports multiple monitors is to find the name of your card ( Control Panel > Device Manager > Display Adapters) and Google it with the monitor setup you’re looking to run (e.g. For example, many older Nvidia cards are unable to run more than two monitors on a single card, even if they have more than two ports.

Just because you see three or more ports on your discrete graphics card, however, doesn’t necessarily mean you can use all of them at the same time. If you want to do this, you will also need to enter your PC’s BIOS and go to Configuration > Video > Integrated graphics device and set it to “Always enable.” Tip: While it is possible to set up multiple monitors using ports on both your motherboard and your discrete graphics card, you’ll see a performance drop and some lag when you move windows between monitors.