What do i need for 3 monitor setup (im really new to this)

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Never built a PC before, been using laptops, i want a triple monitor setup for gaming 1080p and at least 60fps, i will mostly be playing warframe and maybe call of duty ww2, i dont really wanna spend more than £1000 for the pc and monitors.This is the monitor i was looking at SAMSUNG C24F396 Full HD 24" Curved LED Monitor £150 each

i've watched a ton a youtube vids but even then i find them a bit complex.

how do i know what parts to chose and if they are compatible with each other?

can any graphic card support 3 monitors as long as it has 3 ports? (hdmi, dvi, display port, vga)

what does the GB on graphic cards mean/do like 4GB 6GB 8GB

will using different ports/ adaptors on different monitors create lag or display a different picture quality?

what power supply would i need like 350w 500w?

how much ram would i need and what MHz?
 
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That card can handle 3 monitors just fine, I'm running 2x monitors on a 660ti without issue.

There's a huge discrepancy in the thinking here. A monitor as is, takes almost no power to use, even YouTube uses very little resources, you can very easily put a screen up from a cell phone, that's how little a monitor needs.
Imagine an old slide projector, ran on a 15w light bulb. You could show slides all day long. That's windows on 3 monitors, it's recognized as nothing more than 1 screen, extended and split into 3 parts. Now take that same projector and speed flip the slides 60x a second, that's gaming. You have to replace each still photo on a resolution that's 3x as wide, and that takes power. The 1050ti doesn't have it. It might do...
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i want to have the option to game on all 3 simultaneously, i heard that with AMD eyefinity i would need more than 1 graphics card is that correct ?

 
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no

you need a very powerful single card if you want to game on all three monitors

multi gpu setups are not worth the hassle
 
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This build can't happen on this budget, the way that you want it. Gaming on all 3 monitors simultaneously with a budget of £1000 including monitors. At £150 each, that's £450 just in monitors, leaving @£550 for the pc. The gpu alone that's powerful enough to do that job will run £650 on up.

Rethink your expectations or rethink the budget, can't drink champagne on a beer budget.
 
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That card can handle 3 monitors just fine, I'm running 2x monitors on a 660ti without issue.

There's a huge discrepancy in the thinking here. A monitor as is, takes almost no power to use, even YouTube uses very little resources, you can very easily put a screen up from a cell phone, that's how little a monitor needs.
Imagine an old slide projector, ran on a 15w light bulb. You could show slides all day long. That's windows on 3 monitors, it's recognized as nothing more than 1 screen, extended and split into 3 parts. Now take that same projector and speed flip the slides 60x a second, that's gaming. You have to replace each still photo on a resolution that's 3x as wide, and that takes power. The 1050ti doesn't have it. It might do 15-20 at best. And that's at low details, raising to high gets worse, ultra is near impossible. To get 60 frames per second takes at least a 1070, better yet a 1080 and wanting higher detail settings will take a 1080ti. No way around it.

What usually happens is games are run on the primary screen, either in windowed mode DirectX or full screen mode using OpenGL, the aux monitors regulated to desktop usage such as wiki or Google or whatever. There is a slight drop in performance on the primary as resources are used to power the other screens, but it's negligible. But on your £1000 budget, gaming using nvidia Surround or AMD eyefinity isn't realistically possible.
 
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