Hello, I need advice on what graphics card to buy for two machines.
I can't see any rhyme or reason in the obscure world of graphics card marketing, so best I ask my question direct. These are business computers so none of the gaming stuff applies.
Machine 1: "ACCOUNTS-PC" - A regular desktop PC for our accounts girl. We want to run 3 monitors on this machine. All the latest PC's can do this with onboard graphics (Intel 530 or 630) but this PC is about 2 years old and can't do 3 with onboard graphics. So, I called an IT store and asked them to recommend a card. They suggested the ASUS GeForce GT 730 2GB GDDR3 Graphics Card. I bought it, installed it and it didn't work. In the driver interface when I try to select the 3rd monitor it gives an error "This card supports up to 2 monitors". So I'm back to the drawing board. There is absolutely no gaming or even video watching on this computer - it's Reckon Accounts and MS Excel use mainly. What card should I get for this?
This computer has an 2015 i5 CPU and 8GB RAM.
Machine 2: "TECH-PC" - this is my computer, a fairly high powered desktop PC with i7-6700 CPU, 16GB RAM and a 500GB SSD drive. This chip is new enough to run 3 monitors from onboard graphics, however one monitor is a 30 inch 2560x1600 monitor. (the other two are only 1680x1050 and 1366x768, at least for now). When I first got this monitor a year ago, I was able to make it run by winding the refresh rate on the 30" down to 30fps. However after the latest Windows update I can no longer do this.
This computer is used for occasional video editing with Premiere and some Autodesk work so a card is probably justified. But what card should I buy that will definitely be able to run 3 monitors, one being 2560x1600?
For this computer I would give preference to a card that can support 4 monitors to give me another option for a side or wall display in the future.
One final note...I am NOT INTERESTED in garbage cards that use DisplayPort or any other boutique interface. How many monitors are there under $250 that have DisplayPort inputs??? None. The industry standard monitor interfaces are VGA, DVI and HDMI.
MANY THANKS in advance for those that can help me!!
I can't see any rhyme or reason in the obscure world of graphics card marketing, so best I ask my question direct. These are business computers so none of the gaming stuff applies.
Machine 1: "ACCOUNTS-PC" - A regular desktop PC for our accounts girl. We want to run 3 monitors on this machine. All the latest PC's can do this with onboard graphics (Intel 530 or 630) but this PC is about 2 years old and can't do 3 with onboard graphics. So, I called an IT store and asked them to recommend a card. They suggested the ASUS GeForce GT 730 2GB GDDR3 Graphics Card. I bought it, installed it and it didn't work. In the driver interface when I try to select the 3rd monitor it gives an error "This card supports up to 2 monitors". So I'm back to the drawing board. There is absolutely no gaming or even video watching on this computer - it's Reckon Accounts and MS Excel use mainly. What card should I get for this?
This computer has an 2015 i5 CPU and 8GB RAM.
Machine 2: "TECH-PC" - this is my computer, a fairly high powered desktop PC with i7-6700 CPU, 16GB RAM and a 500GB SSD drive. This chip is new enough to run 3 monitors from onboard graphics, however one monitor is a 30 inch 2560x1600 monitor. (the other two are only 1680x1050 and 1366x768, at least for now). When I first got this monitor a year ago, I was able to make it run by winding the refresh rate on the 30" down to 30fps. However after the latest Windows update I can no longer do this.
This computer is used for occasional video editing with Premiere and some Autodesk work so a card is probably justified. But what card should I buy that will definitely be able to run 3 monitors, one being 2560x1600?
For this computer I would give preference to a card that can support 4 monitors to give me another option for a side or wall display in the future.
One final note...I am NOT INTERESTED in garbage cards that use DisplayPort or any other boutique interface. How many monitors are there under $250 that have DisplayPort inputs??? None. The industry standard monitor interfaces are VGA, DVI and HDMI.
MANY THANKS in advance for those that can help me!!
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