Three monitors but different brands and sizes.

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Hi
I do video editing. I have three monitors one is a "32 inch flatscreen tv and the other two are different brands/makes. A Samsung "24 and a viewsonic "19 widescreen.
I can get two working together and the third is recognised but like a lot of folks one of those has to be disabled at any one time.
My Graphics card is a Sapphire Dual X r9 270x on gigaybte 99ofxa ud3 motherboard .
I got an dispaly port adaptor but it is not an 'active' type.
I was wondering if there was anyway i could get the three monitors to work without spending any more money :)
Amd say that for it to work on their card the two monitors on the non display port have to be matched monitors... Bummer.
It is for video editing so these mis matched monitors are fine.
Any help much appreciated. If anyone has used different make monitors out there .......
 
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I'v been running mis-matched monitors for as long as I have had more than one screen. Right now I'm running an Asus PB238Q, a 1440p Xstar DP2710 and a BenQ G2420HD from back when 1080p was the all new thing.

The only way I can see you running that monitor without getting an Active DisplayPort adapter, is to see if your lucky and the integrated graphics are still running (Mainstream Intel only unfortunately). Hook one up to the mobo and see if it works.
If it doesn't, diving into the BIOS may reveal a setting about the primary graphics adapter and (again) if your lucky it may have the option to run both.
I'v been running mis-matched monitors for as long as I have had more than one screen. Right now I'm running an Asus PB238Q, a 1440p Xstar DP2710 and a BenQ G2420HD from back when 1080p was the all new thing.

The only way I can see you running that monitor without getting an Active DisplayPort adapter, is to see if your lucky and the integrated graphics are still running (Mainstream Intel only unfortunately). Hook one up to the mobo and see if it works.
If it doesn't, diving into the BIOS may reveal a setting about the primary graphics adapter and (again) if your lucky it may have the option to run both.
 
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Cheers for that/. That is reassuring . As long as it can be done then I will get there, in the end. This mobo does not have internal graphics but I do have a couple of el cheapo nvidia cards lying around. There are six pci e slots on the mobo of different flavours so maybe some answer there.
I totally forgot about the bios..It was late and hooking up the monitor was last thing on my list. duh.

If I decide to go the active display port adapter, any suggestions as to brand or suchlike?
 
Throwing another GPU at it would solve the problem I bet. AMD/Nvidia cards can work in the same system, just dont expect them to work together (or use CUDA, Nvidia did a dickish move with disabling CUDA if it detects a non-Nvidia card in the system).

As for Active adapters, cant really say, I am lucky that my ASUS has a DP input so I dont need one. Anything certified for Eyefinity should work fine.
 

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I will have a 'muck' around later. I did put a nvidia geforce card in, just to see. It showed up in device manager with an error. Could not find much in my bios to do with it though. That is a bit sly of them to do that with the cuda. I have not put my adobe suite on yet so not tested the new build out yet. The graphics is meant to perform well with Premiere apparently.

I ordered an active adapter from Amazon for around twenty quid. Seemed cheap and ok reviews and it has a AMD gold star/standard.. basically its approved by them... if that is anything to g by. I will know by Wednseday.