3 monitors graphics card?

I dont really know if you can get a 3 (tri) monitor output for a graphics card, I havent been able to find one, and all of the posts I have found seem to be at least 2 years old,

I am hoping things have changed a bit, is there anyway to easily get a 3 monitor set-up, I have dual DVI at the moment.

im after 1920x1200 res on all 3 screens.

If tri-display graphics cards do exist can someone recommend some card names for me to look at.

otherwise how else do I go about it.

thanks in advance for any advice

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Hi, for a single gfx card system, only way I know is using something like the matrox triple head go system or one of their gfx cards like this.

http://www.matrox.com/graphics/en/ [...] lppciex16/

Don't know the cost though.

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u could get a 3rd output from a pci graphics card i think

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The OP could also get a 4850x2 but I didn't think he was after that sort of thing.

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lexius_75 wrote :

I dont really know if you can get a 3 (tri) monitor output for a graphics card, I havent been able to find one, and all of the posts I have found seem to be at least 2 years old,

I am hoping things have changed a bit, is there anyway to easily get a 3 monitor set-up, I have dual DVI at the moment.

im after 1920x1200 res on all 3 screens.

If tri-display graphics cards do exist can someone recommend some card names for me to look at.

otherwise how else do I go about it.

thanks in advance for any advice

To my knowledge the only thing to do is get two cards IE (One PCI-E and one PCI or dual PCI-E). Sorry Man. Oh and if your in Vista/7 you need to have both ATi or nVidia unless you plan on running XP drivers but only if you are going to get two different cards.

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The driver issue in vista does not exist in win 7.

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The driver issue in vista does not exist in win 7.

When did they change that? To my knowledge the driver model is the same for 7 and Vista.

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i think in Win 7 they're once again allowing you to install multiple graphics drivers like in XP.

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Driver model is being updated to once again allow multiple drivers.

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lexius_75 wrote :

I dont really know if you can get a 3 (tri) monitor output for a graphics card, I havent been able to find one, and all of the posts I have found seem to be at least 2 years old,

I am hoping things have changed a bit, is there anyway to easily get a 3 monitor set-up, I have dual DVI at the moment.

im after 1920x1200 res on all 3 screens.

If tri-display graphics cards do exist can someone recommend some card names for me to look at.

otherwise how else do I go about it.

thanks in advance for any advice

Does your motherboard have integrated graphics? If so, use that for the third monitor.

Otherwise, add another video card using a pci-e slot if you have it, or otherwise a pci slot. It should cost <$50.

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