Which mobo supports 2 GFX cards?

[doug566]

Well ill be soon getting a third 24" dell for this pc. I have no idea on how its gonna work though. EIther I get the external thing by matrox...or I was told it's possible to runs 2 of 2 graphics cards? Im running 2 screens atm (both 24") on 1 card and its going fine, as all it's used for is web browsing. What would i be looking at in the way of $, I have a Gigabyte GA-81945P-G-RH. I don't think this can run two cards. Would both cards be PCIE?
Cheers.

 

[rammedstein]

if it has a 2nd pcie slot asrock made a "hack" driver so you can run crossfire on it...ehhh.. that is the limit of my effort... personally i'd just suggest you get an 8800gts... much better option than 2 cards

 

[doug566]

I need 1 card that supports 2 monitors and the other that supports 1. I will be using 3 monitors at a time, so I need 3 outputs.

 

[Techfan]

In the past i've tried two PCI VGA cards with two screens and it worked. I'm not sure if you add a PCI Video card together with PCI-x on your motherboard will work with your 3rd monitor. And that think from maxtor it supports 3 monitors so it's up to you.

 

[andybird123]

you should just be able to get hold of a PCI graphics card and chuck that in, I've done this on a older machine running an AGP card with 2 outputs and then a PCI card for the 3rd screen

e.g. http://www.ebuyer.com/UK/product/119218/rb/0

 

[doug566]

Went out and got myself a PCI card, got it running with another monitor, will order the new dell,
Cheers for the help :!:

 

[apache_lives]

slap in any video card your board will take - it wont work in sli/crossfire but you will get your extra outputs etc

 

[Taft12]

Went out and got myself a PCI card, got it running with another monitor, will order the new dell,

Are you sure a crappy PCI video card will support the native resolution of a Dell 24"?

 

[doug566]

Yes I connected 1 of my 24" dells to it and it worked like the other did, fine!

 

[andybird123]

Went out and got myself a PCI card, got it running with another monitor, will order the new dell,

Are you sure a crappy PCI video card will support the native resolution of a Dell 24"?

Just because it's no good for gaming, doesn't mean it's inherently "crappy" for other (e.g. standard desktop) uses, don't forget smaller sized CRT's were capable of very high resolutions a long time ago - my 17" crt supports 1600x1200, my physically bigger 17" crt only supports 1280x1024!