Video cards and Direct X

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Levone

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Ok so I'm looking at getting a new graphics card to support a third monitor. Currently I have a Radeon HD 4870 which uses DX 10 I believe (might be 11, not sure, 10 definitely though). I'm looking at a low-end PCI card that would basically just run the third monitor. No gaming going on on it or anything like that, just displaying a browser and documents, maybe a movie at times, which pretty much gives me the sole option of this:

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814161011


Problem is, it uses DirectX 7. I have whatever the newest version is (10 or 11, I don't remember any more and I'm not on my desktop so can't figure out), so would it even work in my computer?
 
It's best to use a card from the same generation (DX10.1 for the 4870) so a 4xxx ati card.

Or you could sell your 4870, and buy a 5850 (uses eyefinity, means you can have 3 monitors on one card)

If you are not a gamer then get a 5770 or 5750 as they still have DX11 and eyefinity
 
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So would the card not work at all? Upgrading to the 5870 isn't really an option at the moment due to money so I was looking for a cheaper alternative.

Unfortunately all of the DX 10 compatible cards use x16 slots, and I only have one, which is occupied by my current video card. So I'm quite limited in needing something that uses an x1 slot or a standard PCI slot. Else I have to upgrade my MB, which means I have to upgrade my processor as well, and I don't have the money to do that right now, so that's not really an option either.
 
Levone said:
So would the card not work at all? Upgrading to the 5870 isn't really an option at the moment due to money so I was looking for a cheaper alternative.

Unfortunately all of the DX 10 compatible cards use x16 slots, and I only have one, which is occupied by my current video card. So I'm quite limited in needing something that uses an x1 slot or a standard PCI slot. Else I have to upgrade my MB, which means I have to upgrade my processor as well, and I don't have the money to do that right now, so that's not really an option either.
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You don't need a 5870. look up 5750 or 5770 on newegg, they are a lot cheaper with the same features, and will suit what you need.
 
Running 3 monitors w/ 5750...

You have to run the third monitor off the display port. You can only use 2 out of the dvi and hdmi ports. Other than that go for it these cards are cheap for their 40nm tech and 1gb gddr5 memory.
 
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