3 Monitor Hook-up

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cointelpro

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What is currently the best way to hook up three monitors? I have 3 Samsung SyncMaster 204B Monitors and a PCI-E HP DC7600 computer. I want to run 3 monitors but i'm not sure if the best way is to buy a dual-head PCI-E video card and another PCI card for the third monitor or to just but an expensive PCI-E video card and run the triple head to go. Help Please?
 
TripleHead2Go doesn't support the native resolution of those screens. The cheapest way to go is to buy a PCI card with dual outputs if your current card only has one. I believe it's best to buy a card of the same brand(ati/nvidia) as the one you currently have to avoid conflicting drivers.
 
If I buy a PCI card with dual heads wont that delete the onboard video driver for my center screen? Do I buy two PCI cards?
 
cointelpro said:
If I buy a PCI card with dual heads wont that delete the onboard video driver for my center screen? Do I buy two PCI cards?
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not always, best is to try it out and see if it does indeed get disabled.
if it does, then 2 PCI cards are what I would do.

I am going to be looking at adding a second card to my machine in the near future when I get my other monitor back from best buy.
I'll be running 2 19" Samsung CRT's with my LG 19" Widescreen LCD in the middle.
 
What is your current setup.
If you have a single PCI-e card get a PCI card of the same brand(ie. Nvidia-Nvidia, ATI-ATI)
 
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