Re: rule of thumb regarding video cards and monitors

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Not sure about your Radeon, but many cards that support
only two monitors have additional connector for one of the outputs
(like VGA and HDMI).
There are special cards that supoort 8 and more monitors.

-- pa

"husky86" <husky86@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message news:E5E15B54-A934-4F90-8061-0E454229A323@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
We have an ATI Radeon HD 3650 PCle x16 video card in an HP desktop. The back
of the video card has 3 ports: 1 DVI and 2 DisplayPort.

We would like to have 3 monitors hooked up to this desktop. When we
contacted HP support about this desire, we were assured that 3 monitors could
be connected directly to the video card WITHOUT the need to split to
connection with a special adapter.

However, when we connect 3 flat-panel monitors to this video cardâ?"directly
to the 3 portsâ?"only 2 monitors function at any given time.

This is also true when we try other hookup scenarios, like using the 2
DisplayPort ports and splitting one of the connections to 2 monitors.

We are assuming therefore that the general rule with any video card is that
is can only be used to 2 monitors at any given time?

Is this correct?

.

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