gts 250 3-monitors

SpringWater

SpringWater

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Can I run three monitors on a single gts250 (just for the desktop, not in games)?
If not would buying another gts250 fix my problem? (I know that I could go for a single new, more powerful video card, but a gts 250 is like $40 on e-bay so I might as well get another one temporarily, before I get a new generation card)
 
Yes, you can run it with another 250, but it has to be ran in SLI mode to do it.

And they were not behind AMD. They did not allow it because they were not about to allow you to run 3 screens on a underpowered card, causing you to say Nvidia is a bad company. 3 screens really need the power of 2 cards unless you only do word processing on them, which few do.
 
wolfeking said:
Yes, you can run it with another 250, but it has to be ran in SLI mode to do it.

And they were not behind AMD. They did not allow it because they were not about to allow you to run 3 screens on a underpowered card, causing you to say Nvidia is a bad company. 3 screens really need the power of 2 cards unless you only do word processing on them, which few do.
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You are right. So, if I get another gts 250, put it in sli, I can have 3 monitors. Can I get some other card, not a gts 250, I have an 8400gs, I heard that there is some way you can use two different cards and run multiple monitors...?
 
You can toss the 8400gs in your system and install the drivers for it. You can hook up the third display to it and it will work. The problem here is the screen will flash when it goes from the 2 screens that are on the 250 to the one hosted by the 8400gs. It would work to get you 3 screens but it is not the way you want to run 3 screens.

It might be better with 2 nVidia cards than one nVidia and one ATI when I did it with my 4850 and 8400gs but I doubt that it will be smooth like if you do what wolfeking is suggesting.
 
As soon as I get my hands on 3 monitors I will plug in my gts 250 and my 8400gs, and if it will work really terrible I will just get a new video card or another gts 250.
 
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