Video Card Recommend Needed for Driving DUAL-DVI 2560x1440 Monitors

[bbddpp]

I'm hoping someone who is smarter than me can help me out on a video card. Building my first new rig from scratch in about 5 years and fell behind on the tech.

No gaming planned but I'd still like it to be fast with 20-30 browser tabs open, videos playing, etc.

Rig specs:

- ASRock AB350 Pro4 AM4 AMD Promontory B350 SATA 6Gb/s USB 3.0 HDMI ATX Motherboard
- AMD Ryzen 5 1600 Processor 6 Cores / 12 Threads 19MB Cache 3.6 GHz
- Patriot Viper Elite Series DDR4 16GB (2 x 8GB) 3000MHz

I'll be running 2 of the Korean 27" DUAL-DVI monitors (DUAL-DVI only option to connect), an ACHIEVA Shimian QH270-Lite 27" @ 2560x1440 and a X-STAR DP2710 LED 27" @ 2560x1440.

Looking to know the best way to connect both of these monitors to the system, either one via the onboard video on teh Mobo and an additional card, or a single (or two) cards that will do this the most efficient way at full resolution, realizing these require dual DVI to work and I won't be doing any gaming. I do want to aim high though, I want plenty of power so the graphics are never the bottleneck even if I have both monitors going streaming live video on one and a ton of work or Photoshop or whatever happening on the other.

Any suggestions on something affordable this black Friday weekend would be awesome.

Thanks so much folks.

B.

 

[ddferrari]

I'm not sure a video card would help at all in this situation. You need CPU power for browsing, not graphics power. I see no reason why your Ryzen 5 wouldn't be just fine.

But being that Korean 1440p monitors (own the Qnix q2710 myself) use DVI connections, I'd grab a GTX 1050 for ONE DVI connection; you will then have to get an HDMI to DVI converter for the second. No graphics card I know of has two DVI outputs. Plus, you'll have some horsepower in case you get into some light gaming.

 

[dontlistentome]

I'd recommend you get an SSD. Things like Photoshop, video editing, and even switching tabs in your browser happen much faster with an SSD. Otherwise all those cores and threads, plus the 16gb ram are what you need. The videocard can be entry level since it won't be doing much. The new ones have all the hardware encoding/decoding you need so I don't see that holding you back. Multi-monitor and 1440p setups can be taxing, but that's in gaming, which doesn't apply to you.

If you are going to be doing serious Photoshop work, or video editing such as in 4k, then I suggest you go to the websites of the software you plan to use and see what they have listed for hardware recommendations. There might be certain scenarios where you might want a more capable card, depending on what you will be doing.

 

[bbddpp]

Thanks for the answers. I actually found a card with 2 DVI-D ports so I'm hoping it can do it. I appreciate the insight though, as I suspected it may be more the processor that was a performance bottleneck. Still I'm hopeful I can solve the issue of connecting both of these 2560x1440 screens using a single card. I didn't know you could use an HDMI to Dual DVI converter (didn't know they existed) so that's a second thing I can consider.

Appreciate the answers!