How to set up 3 monitors ?

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Dunhill79

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Hai all, Can you all guide me for setting my brother system as he want to set up 3 monitor LED 21 inch Ben Q to his system, The problem is my brother is using my old card which is Asus GTX 560 Direct CU II OC and as far as i know it can only support up to 2 monitors only right? And he's using a motherboard Asus P8z77-V-LK which also has an intergrated display....so the question is

1. Can Asus 560 display card using 2 monitor and on board display all at the same time?
2. If can how is the setup, I mean what should i do first ? Is it just hook all the 3 monitors together?
3. How to install display driver for on board motherboard drivers? Will it crash if i install Nvidia driver with on board drivers?
4.For the cable is it ok if for GTX 560 using 2 DVI cable to connect to monitor and HDMI cable for on board connection?

For your info my brother wants to play games only using 1 monitor while the rest is for surfing and his office work. Is it possible guys for this set up?

Thanks in advance.
 
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The GTX 560 will support 3 monitors. You just need a display port to DVI cable. Go to Control Panel in Windows and select NVIDIA Control Panel and then look for the option to set up multiple monitors on the left.
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You can't use the onboard if you use 2 DVI or DVI + HDMI. You are right in that model 560 will only run 2 monitors unless you have a display port on it if so then you can run 2 off the DVI ports and 1 off the display port. I do not believe that model 560 comes with the DP though.

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Buy another gfx card that supports 3 monitors you need dual DVI or HDMI + a "Display port" there are countless options available depends on what you want to do with the system.

The cheap option if you just want a 3 monitor workstation (not for gaming) just buy a cheap PCI card and put it in to run the 3rd monitor. Any cheap run of the mill $25 PCI card will work just fine. Understand you won't be running Flightsim with 3 monitors using this setup. You'll need a real 3 monitor supported card with some horse power for that.

 
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By the way using a cheap 2nd PCI card to run the 3rd monitor would probably be ideal for your situation as you would be able to run games on 1 monitor using your gtx 560 and keep the desktop live on the other monitors.

 
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Thanks for replying but i'm not fully understanding by the means of ( buy a cheap PCI ) can you give me an example or link for this physical cheap pci card?The rest of your explanation i'm fully understand ,
Thanks in advance .
 
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The GTX 560 will support 3 monitors. You just need a display port to DVI cable. Go to Control Panel in Windows and select NVIDIA Control Panel and then look for the option to set up multiple monitors on the left.
 
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