Need help on hooking up 3 monitors to one graphics card
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Attalin
January 7, 2014 1:45:52 PM
I've been searching a lot and with the help of this community i've picked out which monitors I want. I'm going to have 3 of these: http://www.amazon.com/Acer-H236HL-bid-23-Inch-Widescree... using Nvidia surround on my GTX 780. I have a couple of questions before placing my order...
1) Will they all be able to connect to my graphics card?
2) Will the quality be the same on all three monitors? (there is only one HDMI port, and two other ports that look like vga/dvi or something with a very minor difference between them)
3) Do I need any extra adapters or cables to hook them up/get the best quality out of all of them?
Thanks in advance!
1) Will they all be able to connect to my graphics card?
2) Will the quality be the same on all three monitors? (there is only one HDMI port, and two other ports that look like vga/dvi or something with a very minor difference between them)
3) Do I need any extra adapters or cables to hook them up/get the best quality out of all of them?
Thanks in advance!
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Attalin
January 7, 2014 2:13:25 PM
ewok93 said:
Find out what brand your card is, or your outputs. That monitor has VGA, DVI, and HDMI, so if your card has all of those, you're in luck. The VGA will have a lower quality, but probably not noticeable.My card is a Galaxy GTX 780. Just looked it up and it has 1 "display port", 1 HDMI, 1 DVI-I, and 1 DVI-D. What's the difference between the DVI-I and the DVI-D?
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Different ports. http://www.amazon.com/StarTech-DVI-Cable-Adapter-DVIVGA... That adapter will work, and that (and matching cables) is all you'll need to run all 3.
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Attalin
January 7, 2014 2:21:43 PM
ewok93 said:
Different ports. http://www.amazon.com/StarTech-DVI-Cable-Adapter-DVIVGA... That adapter will work, and that (and matching cables) is all you'll need to run all 3.So I need the adapter and that's it? Do the monitors come with the rest of the cables?
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Attalin
January 7, 2014 2:27:02 PM
Most monitors will ship the cheapest cable they can odd are it will be a VGA cable. Mine only have DVI on them so they shipped with DVI. Check the page for the content of the shipment. Buy two DVI Cables and Either and HDMI or an DP-DVI Active or Passive adapter. Passive is low quality low resolution. Active will give you better its about $20-$30 for the adapter in this case you'd buy 3 DVI Cables.
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http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E168... Dvi-d
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E168... HDMI
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E168... VGA
And of course, the adapter.
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E168... HDMI
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E168... VGA
And of course, the adapter.
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Attalin
January 7, 2014 2:41:01 PM
Attalin
January 7, 2014 2:47:55 PM
Best solution
Attalin
January 7, 2014 2:51:08 PM
Avocade said:
No, not necessarily. You can run and HDMI for the 3rd monitor HDMI and DVI are very close in quality. to keep cost down you could do 2 DVI and 1 HDMI. I was just giving you options!
Ewoks solution is just as effective! Yes, I was going to use one dvi and hdmi, but the other DVI input is different and supposedly won't work, which is why I need either the adapter that Ewok suggested or the DP-DVI Active thing that you suggested.
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January 7, 2014 3:05:10 PM
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