Help me ~ need a 2d card

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Hi Guys,
I am upgrading to a 939 setup and have since given up gaming, i run 3 monitors one on a pci card, but now i am looking for a pci e card for my other 2 screens.. I don' t want to sacrifice any 2d quality or perfomance, sorry i don't know much about 2d when it comes to cards, any suggestions or advice would be greatly apreciated.

something like this would suffice?
evga from newegg
 
Do you have 3 LCD monitors? If that's the case I would get one with dual DVI over DVI +VGA... which would be at the cheapest, about $100. If you don't really care about the dual DVI then the 6200 will be plenty for your needs.
 
ok, excuse my ignorance, but why is dvi better then vga? i run 1 lcd and 2 crts.
 
there's no conversion of signal from digital to analog in that case. But seeing as it is only one LCD I think you are fine with one dvi and one vga.
 
If you can find one an ideal card would be the dual GPU Radeon 9000. It has support for up to 4 monitors and It's Pci.
 
WARDOZER9 said:
If you can find one an ideal card would be the dual GPU Radeon 9000. It has support for up to 4 monitors and It's Pci.
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thats cool, but with my pci ati 7000 its very laggy in 2d, in ati tool there is something to change the latency on pci cards, but i haven't messed with that, could anyone further explain the lag with a pci 7000?
 
Least said:
there's no conversion of signal from digital to analog in that case. But seeing as it is only one LCD I think you are fine with one dvi and one vga.
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gotcha thanks!
 
MSI makes one with dvi and vga outs. You wouldn't need to spend money on a 2nd card. It's prefectly fine for 2d, and it even decodes HD vid.
 
WARDOZER9 said:
If you can find one an ideal card would be the dual GPU Radeon 9000. It has support for up to 4 monitors and It's Pci.
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its actually dual mobile 9000 with 64mb per gpu
and is literally meant for stock market use as they need multimonitors for the ticker scrolling

the card is called FireMV i forget the number but its a FireMV card
so its gonna cost more than $100 if thats the guys budget cuz this card is not a normal gaming card it is considered a workstation/money maker card lol
 
thanks for the info guys.. went ahead with the svga, 30$ with MIR.. can't lose much with that.
 
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