Triple Monitor Question

[garrettk4]

Hello Members!

I currently own two 24 inch monitors one of which is from Asus and the other ViewSonic. I was wondering about hooking up my Tv (Vizio 32 inch) to make it my third display. I may do some occasional gaming using all 3 monitors

Anyways how would connecting 3 monitors through my hd 6870 work? The TV would have to use HDMI and the other 2 use DVI. Only reason why I'm asking is because I read somewhere that one monitor has to be connected via display port.


Thanks in advance!

 

[HopelessNoob]

i think eyefinity requires you connect atleast one display to the display port for eyefinity to work

 

[jsrudd]

You can use an active DP to DVI adapter to connect the third monitor. With different monitors of different sizes, I can't recommend eyefinity gaming. You'll have to turn the detail down to play games across three monitors with your 6870.

 

[garrettk4]

What graphics card would you recommend for triple display gaming? An AMD & GTX Card suggestion please

 

[jsrudd]

I'm more familiar with Nvidia at this point and I think you would need something like a 670 (at a minimum) to play on three screens. Most people who really play on three screens have something like a 690.

Its really expensive to play on three screens because your graphics card is pushing three times the number of pixels.

 

[garrettk4]

I should have specified earlier. I will be needing the third screen to increase my productivity. I rarely play games such as bf3, crysis3, l4d2, other steam games, I will be getting bf4. Other games I play are LoL and SC2 but those only run on one monitor.

Also the 690 is waaaay out of my price range haha. System Specs are in my sig below