Single card for 3 monitor solution?

[ChairmanFaust]

I'm trying to find a video card, AMD or NVIDIA that can drive 3 monitors at 1920x1080. My monitors all have DVI, VGA, and HDMI inputs... Since I will be using this with vidock I'm limited to a max of two 6pin power connectors, less is fine but it can't handle the newer ones that need over 300W (6 & 8 pin power connectors).

I think this limits me to AMD only so it would probably be an older Radeon, one of the first cards to support 3 monitors from one card... (5800 series?) My laptop's GPU is a GTX 280M so I'd like to find something a little better than that for gaming performance (I don't play many games so I don't need anything too fancy) If anyone had a list of potential candidates that would be excellent...

 

[legokill101]

your gonna need a gtx 780 if you want to do that with one card

 

[ChairmanFaust]

While I'd prefer an NVidia solution, the power reqs on that card are too high... I think its going to need to be an older radeon

 

[legokill101]

no it consumer no more then 250w or so under load acording to toms and its the preormance that you need oit for becuase you need a high end card if you want to game on 3 screens with 1 card

 

[polke45]

You need at least 2GB video card to hook up 3 monitors, because mid-level video card are not designed for 2+ monitors so you will not get any benefit in having 3 monitors

 

[AdioKIP]

A 7950 would be a great solution. I run 4x 1080p monitors from my 7950 with no problems at all, and at $200 you cant beat the price. You will need a displayport to DVI adapter to go along with it, but this should only cost you about $20.

 

[ChairmanFaust]

thanks guys... ill ask vidock if their product can support an NVidia 680, since i dont need the latest 780 card and the 680 supports 3 monitors... ill also ask about the Readeon 7950... that would also work for my needs