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Hi, I'm new to the forum so hello folks and thanks in advance for your advice.
I'm speccing up a home PC for some music software and would be grateful for some advice on graphics cards. It's going to be quite a powerful machine - 24GB RAM, i7 processor and X58 motherboard, plus specialist external audio card.
I have quite specific monitor requirements. I will be working from two desks. One will have a 24 inch 1920x1200 monitor, probably the HP ZR24W (DVI-D, VGA, displayport). I may wish to rotate this to landscape for certain applications.
The other desk will have three monitors. Two will be HP 23010ti (1920x1080, with VGA and DVI connections) touchscreens mounted as portrait. The third is probably an Iiyama 1920x1200 (DVI-D, VGA, HDMI) mounted landscape in the centre. Each of the three will show a different image, though the Iiyama may just be a copy of the image on the HP-ZR24W from the other desk depending on how I configure the PC.
So basically I need one or more graphics cards that will let me do this. The company I'm gettting to build the PC offers a standard choice of cards: Nvidia geforce 210, gt220, gt430, ATI radeon hd4350, 5450, 5570, 5670, 5750 or 5770. What I'm clueless about is whether I can do all this from one graphics card (e.g. VGA to first touchscreen, DVI to second touchscreen, HDMI splitter and HDMI-displayport convertor to the two 1920x1200 screens)...or whether I need two or even more graphics cards. And if I'm running two monitors with similar but not identical images (the two touchscreens), would it look odd or have mismatched colours say, if one was fed by DVI and the other was fed by VGA?
I don't want or need to spend a fortune on fancy graphics cards with advanced video processing as I'm working mostly with fixed, static images on touchscreens, not rapid movement hi-res games. What would be the cheapest and simplest graphics card (or combinations of cards) that would do the job for me? Would any one or more of the ones I listed above work? Can more than one be fitted to the PC if ncessary, and configured to give different images, in different orientations, and different resolutions, to different monitors?
I'm speccing up a home PC for some music software and would be grateful for some advice on graphics cards. It's going to be quite a powerful machine - 24GB RAM, i7 processor and X58 motherboard, plus specialist external audio card.
I have quite specific monitor requirements. I will be working from two desks. One will have a 24 inch 1920x1200 monitor, probably the HP ZR24W (DVI-D, VGA, displayport). I may wish to rotate this to landscape for certain applications.
The other desk will have three monitors. Two will be HP 23010ti (1920x1080, with VGA and DVI connections) touchscreens mounted as portrait. The third is probably an Iiyama 1920x1200 (DVI-D, VGA, HDMI) mounted landscape in the centre. Each of the three will show a different image, though the Iiyama may just be a copy of the image on the HP-ZR24W from the other desk depending on how I configure the PC.
So basically I need one or more graphics cards that will let me do this. The company I'm gettting to build the PC offers a standard choice of cards: Nvidia geforce 210, gt220, gt430, ATI radeon hd4350, 5450, 5570, 5670, 5750 or 5770. What I'm clueless about is whether I can do all this from one graphics card (e.g. VGA to first touchscreen, DVI to second touchscreen, HDMI splitter and HDMI-displayport convertor to the two 1920x1200 screens)...or whether I need two or even more graphics cards. And if I'm running two monitors with similar but not identical images (the two touchscreens), would it look odd or have mismatched colours say, if one was fed by DVI and the other was fed by VGA?
I don't want or need to spend a fortune on fancy graphics cards with advanced video processing as I'm working mostly with fixed, static images on touchscreens, not rapid movement hi-res games. What would be the cheapest and simplest graphics card (or combinations of cards) that would do the job for me? Would any one or more of the ones I listed above work? Can more than one be fitted to the PC if ncessary, and configured to give different images, in different orientations, and different resolutions, to different monitors?