New video card needed for multimonitor system.

rick5127

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First off I have been away from the hardware stuff for a few years now. So not sure what is going on in the video card world. I presently am running a GTX 460 card on a windows 7 machine. I am running a 24" and 27" display off of it and want to add at LEAST a 32" tv to the mix. 24" is at 1920 x 1200, 27" is at 2560 x 1440 and 32" tv will be at 1080p.

I have another 460 card here but am thinking that the cards nowadays are probably better at efficiency not to mention that these 460's are a little long in the tooth.

Not doing anything but running around the internet, some office aps, but no real gaming. Just want to put different things on different monitors and not spend a fortune in power.

So is there a single inexpensive card out there that will hook all these monitors up? I saw something about a card having 4 outputs in some post but I was confused by the display port mention. Never heard of that before. I just have HDMI and DVI and vga probably at the moment.

Thanks in advance
Rick
 
Any of the 10xx NV cards should be fine for what you are looking for but I am not sure what you are going to be able to do with the VGA port. I do not think any of the current cards have that port on them anymore. Most if not all the cards now adays have DVI, Display Port, and HDMI. You maybe able to find an adapter for the Display Port to VGA but you will have to look around. Are you trying to keep it around a set price?
 
a lot of cards today drive 3 or more screens but they use Display Port for a majority of the outputs, but you can get Display Port to HDMI and DVI adapters cheap, around $20 each.

to run the 3 screens you want, you may need 2 adapters, since cards with HDMI and DVI usually share a clock generator so you use one or the other.

This GTX 1050 has DP, HDMI, and DVI and states 3 screen support so if you got this one you would just need one adapter to run to the 32" screen.
https://www.newegg.com/Product/Prod...MP6SmIIQJ3fc9k93PZNpoaAqWp8P8HAQ&gclsrc=aw.ds

this cable may even work from DP to HDMI, but I am not 100% positive as the card doesn't state if the DP is DP++ or not,
https://www.newegg.com/Product/Prod...78031&cm_re=dp_to_hdmi-_-82-678-031-_-Product
 
Thanks for the help... ended up buying a cheapie card at local Microcenter that would handle 4 monitors... up and running and sailing along....

Thanks again.

Rick
 
a lot of cards today drive 3 or more screens but they use Display Port for a majority of the outputs, but you can get Display Port to HDMI and DVI adapters cheap, around $20 each.

to run the 3 screens you want, you may need 2 adapters, since cards with HDMI and DVI usually share a clock generator so you use one or the other.

This GTX 1050 has DP, HDMI, and DVI and states 3 screen support so if you got this one you would just need one adapter to run to the 32" screen.
https://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814487295

this cable may even work from DP to HDMI, but I am not 100% positive as the card doesn't state if the DP is DP++ or not,
https://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16882678031&cm_re=dp_to_hdmi-_-82-678-031-_-Product
This EVGA GTX 1050 is a great option. +1 for this route.
 
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