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General vold video card rant.

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I decided to finally hook up my 3rd monitor to my main system... turned out that the active mini-dp adapter I have has broken wires in the mini-dp end..

So I ordered a mini-dp cable so I can repair it.. and have an extra end if the new end breaks.

In the meantime, I decided to put in a second video card.
All I had around in PCI-e is an ATI x1600 and an Nvidia 7600GT.

Tried the ATI, and although I could get it sort of working with all 3 displays, Windows was giving me fits about my 7970 driver, so it was basically just 2d.. nothing else.

After I re-installed the 7970 driver, the x1600 would stop working completely... Nice....

So I tried the 7600GT. My motherboard will not even detect it.

So then I tried an old Matrox G400 PCI card. My computer sees it, but the Matrox Win7x64driver refuses to install, saying that it doesn't support my OS.. nice.

And apparently Windows 8 doesn't even support a "standard VGA" type driver like Windows 7 and previous versions do.

So I guess I am waiting until the mini-dp cable comes to I can repair my adapter.
 
sounds like you shit still working......least you system didn't catch fire lol I have only tried the hdmi output on my card....no idea if the other ports even work....guess i should check and see...but apparently you not having any luck running 3 displays off just the one card...thats a bummer:(
 
primetime said:
sounds like you shit still working......least you system didn't catch fire lol I have only tried the hdmi output on my card....no idea if the other ports even work....guess i should check and see...but apparently you not having any luck running 3 displays off just the one card...thats a bummer:(
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Yeah.. just because the active mini-dp adapter has a bad cable.

Another thing about running multiple monitors off of one card is that it bumps the idle temps by about 10c or so. Kinda silly since it shouldn't take much power at all to just run a desktop screen.
 
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