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Hi,

I'm looking to upgrade from my 17" hp L1706 monitor to a lot bigger 3 monitor display. Can I put a 27" monitor in the middle and two 24" monitors on the sides or do they all have to be exactly the same monitor? And whichever I end have going with can someone suggest some good monitors? Preferably 2560 x 1440 or is that resolution a waste of money? One last question: Is 3 monitors even possible on a single Gigabyte GTX 780 OC 3GB or am I wasting my time? Also this is to run FSX so that is why I am wanting 3 monitors...

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Yeah! having DVI natively by monitor is better than messing with adapters :D
There is guide how to setup triple monitors :)
http://www.cclonline.com/article/1193/Guide/Graphics-Cards/Configuring-Multiple-Monitors-NVIDIA-Surround-Single-GPU-/
nVidia "Surround" supported by DVI-(I), HDMI and DisplayPort.

I wouldn't recommend you Gigabyte's GTX-780 because I saw to many bad things about Gigabyte's high end card look at Asus, EVGA and MSI

Edit: I found that almost every triple monitor setup with three identical monitors is better than one 27'inch and two 23/24'inch monitor setup. Middle 27'inch...
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You can use different monitors in triple monitors setup but 1440p would be significantly more expensive than 1080p some say that 1440p is worth some not, personally I never used 1440p but I think it's worth, And last single GTX-780 can give you gaming with three 1080p monitors but single 1440p would eat a lot of it's power :)

Edit: For Fly Simulator X single GTX-780 would be more than enough with even 1440p monitor :)

I would get three 1080p monitors because of price.

PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant / Benchmarks

Monitor: Asus PB278Q 27.0" Monitor ($478.98 @ Best Buy)
Monitor: Asus MX239H 23.0" Monitor ($199.00 @ Amazon)
Monitor: Asus MX239H 23.0" Monitor ($199.00 @ Amazon)
Monitor: Asus MX279H 27.0" Monitor ($289.99 @ Newegg)
Total: $1166.97
(Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available.)
(Generated by PCPartPicker 2014-05-22 13:10 EDT-0400)

But you can get two 23'inch 1080p and one 1440p monitor for a bit more price. :D
 
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Gonna knock this out one point at a time:

On AMD, you can use 3 different size monitors so long as they all share a common resolution rather easily. Nvidia is a bit more picky, but so long as they all share a common resolution, ie 1080p, it tends to be ok. They will all 3 need to be in landscape orientation (or portrait) but not both.

1440p will be a waste in that situation since it will be forced to downgrade to 1080p to match the side monitors. You would be better off in that case buying 3 matching monitors.

The 780 will handle the triple monitor/FSX demands, but the quality will suffer in a single card setup to maintain FPS versus an SLI config.

Monitor recommendation depends on what you're looking for in a monitor, ie. TN/IPS, price, response time/refresh rate, etc.
 
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Thanks for the reply :) ,
So does that mean they do not all have to share a common display? I think I will go for a 1x 1080p MX279H + 2x 1080p MX239H anyway just because the single 1440p would be forced to downgrade to 1080p so i thought no point. Would that configuration work? I've done some research and decided that 3 1440p monitors would eat my single GTX 780. Also just out of curiosity can a 24 inch monitor even display in 1440p?
 
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Thanks for the reply :) ,
Based on what you have said I decided to go with an all 1080p 3 monitor display: 1x MX279H + 2x MX239H. Is that a good setup or do you recommend something else?
 
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Honestly I didn't know before that 1440p monitor would be downgraded to 1080p with other 1080p monitors so Yes three 1080p monitors (2x 23'inch and 1x 27'inch) would work with single GTX-780 just fine :)
23'inch monitor can be 1440p however there is already 24'inch 4k monitor from Dell :)
 
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I just realized that the MX series only support HDMI. They come with a DVI to HDMI cable but will this make the image quality worse or better? The only other input on that monitor is a vga cable but my GPU doesn't have an ouput for that :( . So can I just use the DVI - HDMI or is that no good?
 
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I'm pretty sure that your GPU has DVI-I (Dual link) output and you can use DVI to VGA adapter which comes with almost all GTX-780(ti)'s :)
 
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Thanks for all the help :)
Okay so I'm getting a Gigabyte GeForce GTX 780 OC 3GB. It's IO features a DVI-I and a DVI-D. So it comes with a DVI to VGA adapter right? If it only has one cable the how do I get three monitors working? (You dont have to explain that here but if you could link me to another website or video that would be great). Also I can't find any website that has what comes in the box with this could you link one?
Thanks again, sorry I'm having a hard time understanding this
 
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Yeah! having DVI natively by monitor is better than messing with adapters :D
There is guide how to setup triple monitors :)
http://www.cclonline.com/article/1193/Guide/Graphics-Cards/Configuring-Multiple-Monitors-NVIDIA-Surround-Single-GPU-/
nVidia "Surround" supported by DVI-(I), HDMI and DisplayPort.

I wouldn't recommend you Gigabyte's GTX-780 because I saw to many bad things about Gigabyte's high end card look at Asus, EVGA and MSI

Edit: I found that almost every triple monitor setup with three identical monitors is better than one 27'inch and two 23/24'inch monitor setup. Middle 27'inch would look a lot bigger than other two monitors and your game images would look terrible
Three VG248H's would look like this
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Ah yes I just went to the amazon website for the gigabyte GTX 780 and read the reviews. There were lots of posotive ones but to many 1 and 2 stars for my liking so I'm considering the ASUS GTX 780 Directcu ii and maybe overclock that because it runs the coolest and quietest out of all the non-reference cards (According to LinusTechTips). All 27" monitors would be just to much for my desk and I wouldn't have enough room, but 2x 24inch + 1 27" seemed Just okay. I think I will take your advice on just getting three 24" monitors coz I dont want to be spending $800 on something that wouldn't be worth the time and money + I'm new to this soooo... thanks for the help I found an answer to my question :)
 
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I have actually decided to go with Asus's DirectCU II Gtx 780ti because I have some extra money now that I'm going with those monitors. I hope that this will give me even better performance :) .
 
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It should and it will give you awesome performance with 3 monitor setup :)
 
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