3 or 4 monitors...nneeeeedddd a card

leSHok

leSHok

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What would be a good card to add a third or maybe fourth monitor for your computer?
I know that some can actually run cs:s and I was thinking about spending about 45 dollars.

I made a post like this yesterday but... it went back up $30 so now its at $75 again :(
 
if you're trying to game on all 3 or 4, i'd get a splitter rather than a second card

there's adapters to hook up multiple monitors as a single monitor
 
no im planning on gaming on the ones that im already running the pci-e card on. i just wanna extend my desktop for fun...
 
NVIDIA Quadro NVS 440 PCI Express x1

and

NVIDIA Quadro NVS 400 PCI

these two cards can support 4 monitors each with two Y-cables

tip, wont run any games....
 
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I've never tried this but can't you run two cards in an SLI motherboard as non-SLI? That way you should have 4 independent displays.
 
The_Other_One said:
I've never tried this but can't you run two cards in an SLI motherboard as non-SLI? That way you should have 4 independent displays.
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Bingo, :) when i had vista installed for example, I couldnt get the right NVidia drivers for SLI, hence, the grafic's options showed me 4 monitors :)

But, adding a pci grafic's card should work already, but to be sure, I'd say, if your card thats already in the pc is Nvidia, make the pci one be an Ati card vice versa. (just to be sure the grafic's driver doesnt completely mess up :o )
 
Yeah, I knew you could add a card using another inteface. I have tried that using PCI and AGP. However, I never actually tried to game like that. I mean would two monitors run at decent speeds and two run like crap? :P
 
Archangel said:
Bingo, :) when i had vista installed for example, I couldnt get the right NVidia drivers for SLI, hence, the grafic's options showed me 4 monitors :)

But, adding a pci grafic's card should work already, but to be sure, I'd say, if your card thats already in the pc is Nvidia, make the pci one be an Ati card vice versa. (just to be sure the grafic's driver doesnt completely mess up :o )
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The other way around this would be to get a pci card with the same gpu.

I'm running a pci-e x1300, and a $80 pci x1300, and they play nice together.
 
heyman421 said:
The other way around this would be to get a pci card with the same gpu.

I'm running a pci-e x1300, and a $80 pci x1300, and they play nice together.
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I am running a FX 5500 and a FX 5200 with 2 monitors on each one making 4 screens, I play Unreal Tournament everyday without a hitch, the fx 5500 is even over clocked from 270/400 to 330/470 both are old pci slots.

as a side note I already had the fx 5500 installed along with the latest nvidia drivers, when I plugged the 5200 in it just ran without needing to install drivers for it.
 
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