Ok so the hardest part is goin to be getting your hands on a second monitor, but heres a few pointers.
Firstly: it's doesn't need to be huge. Because your goin for a dualscreen setup why not stick with 15" these are much easier and cheaper to get hold of. Think of someone you know who's just cashed out on upgrading to a bigger monitor, and they've probably got they're old 15" sitting at the bottom of a warddrobe somewhere, go ask em for it!
It would be a good idea to go with lcd flatscreens, not essential but you may wana think bout how u'd squeeze two crts onto your desk.
K so most people have shy'd away from the venture cause they dont wana shed out for an expensive dual-output graphics card. But do you need to?
This concept was suggested to me, and whilst lots of IT people said it wouldn't work, it does!
Buy a cheap PCI graphics card, they're like £5 on ebay!, make sure its pci tho, not AGP or pciExpress.
and i'd advise you only need 64mb this will be fine for normall use and video playback, the only thing it wouldn't cope with is newer Games.
Install the card simply by pushing it into a spare slot in the back of your pc, boot up and when prompted insert the driver cd (should come with the card, if not download and run the driver)
connect up your second monitor to the pci card and right click on the desktop to get to properties, tab along to the monitors tab and check the box saying 'extend my desktop to this monitor'
done. for five quid! - I've done this and it makes workin on photos/video/audio editing so much better.
Plus it looks awesome having two monitors so guests think you mus be amazing at what you do.
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