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Budget 3 x Monitor Cards and quality

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  • Monitors
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  • Displays
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April 2, 2014 3:49:35 AM

I am looking to upgrade to a 3 x Display on my:

Intel(R) Core(TM)2 Quad CPU Q6600 @ 2.40GHz
4096MB RAM

I accidentally bought and then returned an R7 250 as I foolishly thought that that supported 3 displays. One thing I noted was that the HDMi input on my main monitor made the display less crisp and was not as good quality as the DVI connection I used before.

I have three mixed bag monitors:

Main : HDMI or DVI
2ns: DVI
3rd: VGA

Does anyone have a suggestion for a sub £100 graphics card that can extend across three monitors given the connections above.

I was not impressed with the HDMI quality on my display when running from the R7, is it possible to have 2 x DVI and a VGA on any cards? Does converting HDMI to DVI via cable cure the lower quality issues I experienced?

I prefer AMD as I know it; but would be OK to go with NVidia if there is a good reason.

Any help?

EDIT: I guess more info would help:

Current card: ATI Radeon HD 4800 Series

Machine:
Intel(R) Core(TM)2 Quad CPU Q6600 @ 2.40GHz
4096MB RAM
ASUS P5KC Mobo
Windows 7 64 bit

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April 2, 2014 4:18:45 AM

The HDMI connection is not the culprit of the bad quality; The quality of HDMI is equal to that of DVI.
Get the HD 7770: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E168...
You'll need to connect:
HDMI->HDMI for the main monitor
DisplayPort->DVI
DVI-I->VGA

Why not DVi->DVI and DisplayPort->VGA? Diplayport is digital, VGA analog and DVI-I both. Analog only works with analog and digital with digital.
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