Nvidia GTX 470+3 monitors?

Abik

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Hi all, with the holidays coming up I was looking into getting two more monitors but I am not exactly sure how I would run 3 monitors off one card.

I know the GTX 470 has two DVI ports and a mini HDMI but I am assuming I cant just plug two monitors in both the DVI ports and one in the mini HDMI.

Is there some sort of adapter out there that one would use to achieve this or would I have to buy another card?

If it is relevant, I do not plan on going 3D.

Thanks for your help!
 


Doing SLI will defeat the purpose, as the goal is to run 3 monitors. SLI will only allow 2 monitors.

Abik, I have a question: are you planning on gaming on 3 monitors? I don;t think that's possible with NVIDIA cards. But if all you need is to stretch your desktop, then any 2 cards will do that.
 


The problem if he wants to use an ATI card alongside with his GTX470 is that he would have to search for a hack for the Nvidia drivers so they wouldn't disable the ATI card's driver upon start up.
 
I've tried it already, exact same scenario, had a 470 and bought a 5850 to run 3 monitors. Each time i restarted it would disable and sometimes erase the previous drivers. I had to reinstall when switching adapters, it was a pain so i returned the card and just bought the EVGA UV+
 


I still got some 3DFX cards that I occasionally use and the VSA100 was and in some ways the ultimate gpu for multy gpu systems. It is something that makes ones day to see 16 of them in action on a win9x or NT system with full FSAA and not suffer any lag at all.