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Budget gfx card for 3x 1920x1080 Monitors

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Title says it all really. Looking for a cheap card that'll support 3 monitors. I wont be playing games on it so gamer cards aren't necessary.

Will be buying two more of these to go along with the one I have now,



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I do have onboard graphics and have seen people run two monitors off a video card and one off the onboard, though I don't think my BIOS lets me enable onboard if I have a PCI card / if onboard is enabled the PCI card isn't used.
 
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You could purchase a vga hub



I'm getting one very soon, I use multiple monitors for web design.

What is it you're planning to use 3 monitors with?
 
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You could purchase a vga hub



I'm getting one very soon, I use multiple monitors for web design.

What is it you're planning to use 3 monitors with?

Unless I'm mistaken, that hub just shows the same display on 4 monitors. I need to extend, not multiply.

A third monitor would make a lot of the work I do for private servers a lot faster. Worth the investment, especially when time = money.
 
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I found an expansion module from matrox but they're quite expensive.



It's expansion modules you're looking for actually, so shop around.

I found this as well:

 
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My PC doesn't have a displayport connection, nor does the monitor in that case.

I think I need to go with a PCI video card to run the third, but I'm waiting for someone with experience setting up three monitors to comment.

Currently using a GeForce 7300le (old old old I know), so I guess any card on the will work fine with it. Correct me if I'm wrong.
 
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Decided to buy a 8400GS to go along with my 7300le from bestbuy since its local. I'll let you guys know how it works out, as there really isn't much quality info on the top google results (they're very vague).
 
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