3 monitor setup, but not for gaming

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H_L

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Hello,
I have searched for a while and still haven’t got a reasonable answer as the answers differ from a yes to a no.
I have a sabertooth z77 motherboard https://www.asus.com/au/Motherboards/SABERTOOTH_Z77/

And an ASUS GTX570 DirectCU II graphics card https://www.asus.com/Graphics-Cards/ENGTX570_DCII2DIS1280MD5/
All I would like to do is run a 3 monitor setup not for gaming it’s just for documents and such, so is this possible with what I have?

I can connect 3 monitors off the graphics card (2 off DVI and one off the display port) and the card recognizes all 3 and their model numbers in the display settings in windows 7 but when I enable the 3rd one it disables the first one, does this mean it can only run 2 monitors off the one card? I can’t seem to enable all 3 monitors at once.

If this card can’t support 3 monitors can I run 2 monitors off the graphics cards DVI and the third monitor off the motherboards graphics which is HDMI/display port?

Any advice is greatly appreciated.

3 mon.....JPG
 
The 570 can only run 2 monitors at a time unless you run SLI. You will need to use another video card or hopefully the motherboard onboard video to run the third monitor. What processor are you running?
 
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Thankyou so much for your reply :)

Hopefully I can get my motherboard to output from the HDMI or the Display port at the same time as the graphics card so I can run 3 monitors.

The 3 monitors won’t be doing anything intense as it’s just to display the desktop at 1920x1080 basically.

I’m running:
Intel i7-3770K CPU @ 3.5 GHz
16GB Corsair Vengeance RAM
Windows 7 Professional 64-bit

Cheers
 
The igpu should be able to do that. You might have to set an 'extended display' option in BIOS to keep it from deactivating since you have a discrete card in there.
 
I have it working!!! I'm running 3 displays now: 2 off the graphics card DVI ports and 1 off the motherboards HDMI.
Turns out that the motherboard drivers for the graphics weren’t installed!! Hahaha

Yeh a while ago I wanted to build a computer myself so I purchased the parts through my mate as he has a computer business but he put it all together for me (by mistake) as I wanted to build it myself, I couldn’t have been bothered to pull it apart and rebuild it as it was already setup in the case and everything…… hummm I thought he would have installed the drivers for the onboard graphics but then again he didn’t really need to as it had a graphics card in the build.

I should have check that first hahaha :/

Cheers for you help anyway guys, much appreciated :)
 
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