Can I hook up two monitors to a Y-splitter using simply one video card output(DVI or VGA) for a dual mon. combo?

Answer:

if you did you would just get a duplicate blind and would not be able to use the extended desktop characteristic of your card or the two seperate display function only a clone similar to function because they are sharing the same signal.
To over-elaborate upon what microchi... states, yes,



But, why not stick in a PCI video card and hold two unique monitors!



If you run http://pclinuxos.com or one of the http://livecdlist.com 310 distros, you can split eyeshade, or even do 3D, probably!