Someone told me the Gigabyte 990FXA-UD3 Wont support 3 monitors???

iivixnii

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Is that true??? they said i need the ud5 instead of the ud3. can someone confirm this?

im going to buy the 990fxa-ud3 with
AMD FX8150 8-Core CPU
Corsair Vengance Ram
And MSI Cyclone 1GB Vid Card.

Can anyone tell me if thats a decent set-up??
Thanks
 
simply put, it don't. That is because the motherboard has no video being a 900 series chipset. Add the right video card and you have no issues with 3 monitors.

What specific model of Cyclone is yours?
 
honestly, none of them. Just grab a GTX670 or HD7850/7870/7950/7970 from pretty much any company and you will be fine.
 
I am not sure on that. I do know that on the eyefinity 5770 and 6770 cards they were all display port, so I assume that plays on it some. You can turn display port to DVI or VGA with adapters too. I would research it more if I were the OP.
 
If he doesn't need gaming at that resolution he could go as low as a 5770 with an active adapter I believe. What is the PC for? do you have a budget?
 
I would honestly go with the twin frozr over the cyclone. Much better design. Again, I would go for a 7850 or GTX series for 3 monitor. If you game then look at CF or SLI for it.
 
which model cyclone should i use?????

Cyclone is the marketing term for the cooler, not a model of video card

honestly, none of them. Just grab a GTX670 or HD7850/7870/7950/7970 from pretty much any company and you will be fine.

Even if he wants 3 monitors to have a different web page on each or a text document on each? Without knowing the use, you can't recommend anything

However, I do believe one monitor must support display port connection correct?

To use eyefinity or 3Dvision, yes. To run 3 monitors, no, but with nvidia you need to use sli to have more than 2 monitors

can someone recommend which cyclone to buy?? thats the one i want, i just dont know the diff.

The entire card is the difference. What is your budget, what are your uses, what power supply do you have?
 
no, but with nvidia you need to use sli to have more than 2 monitors
No, that is not right. You can do surround setup with one card. The 600 series is the first ones to allow a single card.

I would still recommend them cards, yes. Based on the OPs complete lack of knowledge I would assume he is not a gamer. But the bandwidth and vRAM of the higher end cards will aid him with 3 high resolution cards no matter what he does on them.
 
No, that is not right. You can do surround setup with one card. The 600 series is the first ones to allow a single card.

I would still recommend them cards, yes. Based on the OPs complete lack of knowledge I would assume he is not a gamer. But the bandwidth and vRAM of the higher end cards will aid him with 3 high resolution cards no matter what he does on them.

What does experience have to do with being able to game? Being part of competitive gaming I know hundreds of gamers very well, and in each different clan you have one or two that know anything. Most pc gamers choose the platform for the better experience, not for better knowledge.

Extra processing power and video memory won't make any difference unless they are gaming, watching full hd video or other gpu intensive tasks. Everything you have said so far is guess work and speculation
 
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