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I need the cheapest graphics card capable of powering 3 separate monitors please. Not for gaming.
Any recommendations?
Any recommendations?
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Msi 5450 £20 on overclockers, supports 3 monitors through VGA, dvi and hdmi
I did spot that, but wasn't sure if it could simultaneously power 3 monitors showing different things? Or if it was DVI *OR* HDMI *OR* VGA.
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If this is just for 3 desktops in windows then this will work fine what monitors are you hooking up ?
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3x 1920x1080 displays. One will just be displaying a webpage with graphs on and the other will be used for browsing/remote desktop etc.
Do you reckon it'd lag or be a bit choppy on that £20 GPU? Last thing I want is lag/choppiness
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3x 1920x1080 displays. One will just be displaying a webpage with graphs on and the other will be used for browsing/remote desktop etc.
Do you reckon it'd lag or be a bit choppy on that £20 GPU? Last thing I want is lag/choppiness
Hmmm its hard to say you could jump up to £45 2GB mem and go for :-
http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=GX-333-SP&groupid=701&catid=56&subcat=1985
The memory and the gpu clock are much faster on this one.
on my last system I was running 3 screens on 2x Asus 8800 GTX and that only has 760 meg of memory on each card and they ran just fine.....
Specs for my old 8800 GTX :-
Memory Clock 900MHz
Standard Memory Config 768MB
Memory Interface Width 384-bit
Memory Bandwidth (GB/sec) 86.4
£20 GPU
- Core Clock: 650MHz
- Memory: 1024MB GDDR3
- Memory Interface: 64-Bit
- Memory Clock: 1066MHz (Effective)
- Processing Cores: 80
£45 GPU
- Core Clock Speed: 780MHz
- Shader Architecture: GCN
- Stream Processors: 320
- Frame Buffer / Memory: 2GB GDDR3
- Memory Width / Speed: 128 bit / 3600MHz
If it was my cash I would go with something with a bit more head room .....
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