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Looking for a card with two Dual Link DVI's

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Ohmycaptain

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I've just got my three 27" Catleap monitors and it turns out my 7970's Active mini DP-DVI adapter, nor the HDMI-DVI adapter works with these.

I can use the DVI port with a DVI cable, but that only gives me the option to use 1 monitor (which is what I'm currently doing).

I can't afford to buy three cards right now, purely because it would require a PSU upgrade and a motherboard upgrade on top of it. So, I need a card with two dual link DVI's so I can run these three monitors off of two cards.

Preferably a 7970 so I don't have to sell mine, but I'm not sure if there are any that aren't 1x dual 1x single?

It must be a GTX 580 or more as far as power goes. I'd definitely prefer a 7970 though because not only do I have one but the advanced eyefinity options on the 7xxx series cards is great to have. Also, scaling is pretty awesome with them in CF.
 
You might check the active DP adapter; these are supposed to support the bandwidth for a dual-link DVI connection. Otherwise, you don't have a good option there.
 
After going through every non-reference card on Newegg, there are no 7970s with two dual-link DVI. You would need an active Dual-link DP to DVI adapter, which will set you back ~$100. Your other option is nVidia, GTX 680 or 670 should be able to do it.
 
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Just a stupid question... If I get a z77 gigabyte g1 sniper and I use my i5-2500k with it, can I still use pci-e slots as 3.0 slots out of the box? Not sure if I need an ivy bridge cpu for that as well.
 
Quote from Gigabyte g1 sniper user manual:

* To support PCI Express 3.0, you must install an Intel 22nm (Ivy Bridge) CPU.
 
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