hooking up multiple monitors

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Doesn't matter. Nvidia didn't have 3 or more monitor support until the 6 series of cards. Yours is to old. If you want to setup a 3 monitor gaming system, you can't just add in another card as they will stay separate monitors. You need a good 6 series card, or the AMD equivalent. I went with the 7950. I have three 25.4" LCDs AND my 40" LCD TV hooked up to it. I needed to use two mDP to DVI adapters though.

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Device Description NVIDIA GeForce GTX 560
Adapter String GeForce GTX 560
Chip Type GeForce GTX 560
DAC Type Integrated RAMDAC

this is all i know
as for the ports i have 2 dvi ports and an mini hdmi port







 

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Doesn't matter. Nvidia didn't have 3 or more monitor support until the 6 series of cards. Yours is to old. If you want to setup a 3 monitor gaming system, you can't just add in another card as they will stay separate monitors. You need a good 6 series card, or the AMD equivalent. I went with the 7950. I have three 25.4" LCDs AND my 40" LCD TV hooked up to it. I needed to use two mDP to DVI adapters though.
 
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Why would you get two 6450s? If you want to game on three screens like that you need as big a card(s) as you can get. I went with a single 7950. If you get the right 6450 assuming they make one, it won't game very well on three screens at once. You need a lot of power if you want to do this. One screen gets hooked up with DVI, another can be done with an HDMI to DVI adapter. Though I've heard this doesn't always work. The final screen needs to have an active mDP to DVI adapter. For my three monitors on my system I have DVI and two mDP to DVI adapters. I hooked my LCD TV up with a 25' HDMI cord. Works great.
 

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is ur card a radeon hd 7950
 

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Yes, I went with the 7950.

You can download CPUz and let us know what the motherboard model is. You'll have to open the case to get the power supply (PSU) model number. After that give us a budget and confirm the country you live in. Once we have the info we can help. But as mentioned above you will be disappointed with the smaller cards. The lowest card I would trust with an Eyefinity setup would be the 7850. And even with that card you'll be playing a lot of games on low.