- Mar 2, 2016
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Hello,
I will soon order a new, tailor-made, silent Win 10/64 desktop PC with 3 monitor set-up for Photoshop + Office. Could you recommend one or two specific graphics cards by product name that
- support my existing 3 monitors all in one (see below)
- later maybe support two 4k monitors instead (unsure)
Existing monitors that i want to use with the new, coming graphic card:
- NEC Multisync LCD 2180 UX 21", 1600x1200 Pixels bei 60 Hz, DVI, made around 2004
- NEC Multisync LCD 2180 UX 21" again
- NEC MultiSync EA231Wmi, 23", 1920 x 1080 Pixel, DisplayPort and DVI-D, used in portrait orientation for text
I currently use this trio on a Win 7 system with one Matrox graphics card, it's great, it fits into the office and i'm so used to it.
Important for me:
- New graphic card supports most Photoshop GPU accelerated functions for still image editing + Photoshop video editing (3D much less important)
- silent, silent, silent (am sensitive)
- well-tested, well-supported, low-maintainance workhorse model
- ok for recording screencasts (videos of software operations)
- just one graphic card feeding all three monitors, not two graphic cards
*NOT* important for me:
- Gaming (never do)
- 3D in Photoshop need only basic; otherwise no 3D
- Hottest state of the art model and 10 percent faster than the rest
- watching movie DVDs or Blurays
- ultra-cheap
About the connections:
Two of my existing monitors have only DVI-plugs and no display port (see specs above). I believe that current graphic cards mostly have display port plugs.
Now I see there are cheap adapters which obviously connect DVI monitors to graphic cards with display port like this:
http://www.amazon.com/StarTech-com-DisplayPort-Video-Adapter-Converter/dp/B0017K6BD2/ref=sr_1_3?ie=UTF8&qid=1456935943&sr=8-3&keywords=HP+DisplayPort+DVI-D+Adapter+FH973AA
These adapters get good consumer reviews on Amazon. So can i count on using an adapter like that, to connect my olden monitors to a hot new graphic card, does it not bring any disadvantage?
Thanks!
PS:
My questions above might sound silly to you, but i am not market-savvy or tech-savvy and all the many websites i checked (including manufacturers) were very confusing and mainly talked about gaming and didn't easily reveal the number of connections.
I will soon order a new, tailor-made, silent Win 10/64 desktop PC with 3 monitor set-up for Photoshop + Office. Could you recommend one or two specific graphics cards by product name that
- support my existing 3 monitors all in one (see below)
- later maybe support two 4k monitors instead (unsure)
Existing monitors that i want to use with the new, coming graphic card:
- NEC Multisync LCD 2180 UX 21", 1600x1200 Pixels bei 60 Hz, DVI, made around 2004
- NEC Multisync LCD 2180 UX 21" again
- NEC MultiSync EA231Wmi, 23", 1920 x 1080 Pixel, DisplayPort and DVI-D, used in portrait orientation for text
I currently use this trio on a Win 7 system with one Matrox graphics card, it's great, it fits into the office and i'm so used to it.
Important for me:
- New graphic card supports most Photoshop GPU accelerated functions for still image editing + Photoshop video editing (3D much less important)
- silent, silent, silent (am sensitive)
- well-tested, well-supported, low-maintainance workhorse model
- ok for recording screencasts (videos of software operations)
- just one graphic card feeding all three monitors, not two graphic cards
*NOT* important for me:
- Gaming (never do)
- 3D in Photoshop need only basic; otherwise no 3D
- Hottest state of the art model and 10 percent faster than the rest
- watching movie DVDs or Blurays
- ultra-cheap
About the connections:
Two of my existing monitors have only DVI-plugs and no display port (see specs above). I believe that current graphic cards mostly have display port plugs.
Now I see there are cheap adapters which obviously connect DVI monitors to graphic cards with display port like this:
http://www.amazon.com/StarTech-com-DisplayPort-Video-Adapter-Converter/dp/B0017K6BD2/ref=sr_1_3?ie=UTF8&qid=1456935943&sr=8-3&keywords=HP+DisplayPort+DVI-D+Adapter+FH973AA
These adapters get good consumer reviews on Amazon. So can i count on using an adapter like that, to connect my olden monitors to a hot new graphic card, does it not bring any disadvantage?
Thanks!
PS:
My questions above might sound silly to you, but i am not market-savvy or tech-savvy and all the many websites i checked (including manufacturers) were very confusing and mainly talked about gaming and didn't easily reveal the number of connections.
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