I recently bought a Inspiron Desktop 530 Mini-tower. It came with a 256 mb ATI radeon mobility HD 3650 card (or that's what it says on the receipt). Now I'm not entirely sure if this is JUST ATI radeon HD 3650 or radeon mobility HD 3650 (since I thought mobility series was for laptops? Am I wrong?)

 

Anyway, There are 3 ports, I'm just not exactly sure about the last port. it seems to have a DVI-I output, HDMI output, and I'm guessing the 3rd one's a displayport output.

 

I have a VGA monitor (Samsung Syncmaster 940N) connected to the DVI output at the moment with a converter attached to it. That's working fine, but recently I got another monitor (HP 1530) for free.

 

2nd monitor has a DVI-D output, so I was wondering if I got another cable that's DVI-D to HDMI, would the monitor work with computer? Most importantly, could I use both of them as a dual monitor? I'm an graphic art student so I wanted dual screens for awhile now.

 

I was also wondering if I could use the ATI card and the integrated video card at the same time through the VGA port on the computer (not on the card). that would work out perfectly for me, but I heard you can't use both of them at the same time. I've tried, but it only picks up VGA and ignores the card altogether if you connect both of the monitors (one through the ATI video card and one through the VGA output on the computer). Is this possible or should I just go and buy the DVI-D to HDMI cable?

 

Thanks