Connecting 3 monitors on a pc

[Jstheron3]

I've always used multiple monitors on my Geforce 210 GPU. I know it's an entry level GPU but it did the job. Lately i wanted to connect my HD projector onto the rig. The 210 has one HDMI port. so i figured why not. After late nighs on Tom's hardware i struggled to find the answer as windows or Nvidia simply won't allow 3 x extended screens. i eventually came to a sollution: connect one screen to my onboard adapter, one to my DVI port and my projector to the HDMI(even though the 210 has another VGA port). I went to my setup menu (when rebooting) and changed the primary GPU to "onboard" (it was set on "auto" thus choosing my added NVidia GPU. After a reboot everything was exactely as I wanted it. 3 x extended screens. Remember I only have the extra GPU on that I've always had installed. So why are people struggling with expensive quadcore GPU's? I'm not a huge gamer, but my method can handle basic COD and Minecraft without delays and frame lagg. So I put my method to you and I hope I saved some of you the extra bucks and effort. I've been running the 3 screens for almost a week and couldn't find a problem with it. Please share me your methods and problems.

 

[plaintuts]

Quadcore gpu's?

I'm inclined to doubt the results you achieved on that setup

 

[geofelt]

Older gpu's often had three outputs, but you could only activate any two at the same time.
Since then, modern graphics cards can output to 4 or more concurrently.

A strong graphics card is need to refresh the screen at a high rate which is desireable for fast action shooter games.

For slower sims type games, like minecraft, the cpu individual core speed is the most important component.

Some motherboards, particularly on prebuilts have a simple bios that only allows integrated graphics or discrete, but not both.