E6400 with E-Port drive two monitors?

Here's my dilemma.

I want to use my E6400 and E-Port to push to two different screens. I need to know the best way to do this.

My office is between my daughters room and the living room. I would like to run one cable to my 52" LCD in the living room and another cable to a 32" LCD in my daughters room.

The actual run to each is probably 35'. I know this is pretty far, but I've read of several people running cables that far with no issue, as long as they were quality cables.

What should I run though?

Can I run a DisplayPort to HDMI cable to each? Should I run DVI to both or one of each? I need to order cables and the good ones are faily expensive, so I want to get it right.

What is the best way to do this? Use the DisplayPorts for both, DVI for both or one of each?

Thanks!

 

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You're going to be limited more by the displays then the cable type. I'd choose DP or DVI. Only reason is the e-port has 1 dp and 1 dvi I believe.

Display port will be your best possibility for the highest end quality, but like I said.... Either your TV or the E-port isnt going to be able to take advantage of the DP capabilities.

 

Does both your TV's support displayport? I've seen very few TV's that support displayport.

You may have to go DVI if the TV's do not support display port, or get a DP-HDMI adapter.

With a good quality cable, you should have no problems going 35'

I've done 50' easily with a set of good cables (it was $200 for the cables alone).

 

I can report that the vga and DVI ports on the e-port can drive two independant monitors. Have never tried with the displayport along with one or both of those. Beware that the displayport to hdmi solution does not drive audio except in a few rare cases under Win7. Have never seen digitial audio over HDMI work on the E6400 on winxp or vista.