Adding an additional monitor to my PC?

[spectacular1]

Hey people

First of all apologies if this is in the wrong section, I was a little confused to where to create a ew topic and thought this would be the best place but mods please remove if you feel necessary.

I was hoping someone could offer me a little support regarding trying to add my new tv/monitor as my secondary monitor to my pc, ideally what I want is when you add a second monitor to your laptop as an extended monitor that is what I require.

Is this possible? If so how? Would I need to purchase an additional graphioc card for my pc? Could you recommend me one? Or could I purchase something like a vga splitter which I would plug in the back of my vga slot and it would have two female vga connections?

Thank you.

[beats]

Would I need to purchase an additional graphioc card for my pc?

That depends on what you have now...

[spectacular1]

I have an internal vga input on my pc and my primary monitor is hooked up to this.

I'm thinking of investing in a hdmi pci card as my tv/monitor has a hd connection.

So all I need to do is add this pci card to my motherboard and then buy a hdmi cable? and connect the cable from the pc to the tv? the only query I have regarding this is that would my pc sound also come out of my tv? That is ideal for me. I know I could have gone down the easy route of getting a vga connection for my pc but the hdmi graphics will be better and I might get sound.

[beats]

You can't really go wrong with an ATi HD 4550. The HD 4550 can send sound through its HDMI output, and it does all others things you seem to want. And the price is good too, only about 40 euro's.