Looking for a secondary card

[MarkW7]

I'm currently planning a motherboard and graphics card purchase.

I'm planning to go with a board that has 3x PCI-E slots, (recommendations needed).

I'm also looking for a secondary card, the card will only be used to allow me to have an extra two monitors, however it must support 2x 22"s at 1920x1080 each but that's pretty much it.

Price: Cheap as poss.

 

[SLIEuro]

What GPU are you considering to buy? and what type of mobo Intel or AMD?

 

[thestepster]

budget?

 

[SnW]

What GPU are you considering to buy? and what type of mobo Intel or AMD?

budget?

What they said,

and tell us why you need 3x PCI/E slots , also what socket(AMD/Intel)...

 

[tinytomlogan]

Do you need a second card for two screens or could it be one card that supports two or three screens?

 

[MarkW7]

Motherboard: Asus P5Q Deluxe

Card 1: 8800GTX

Card 2: ?

Operating system: Ubuntu 10.04

I need to run at least 3 monitors, 4 in the future. The 8800GTX is running two, i need a second card to run another two. Price is really around £30.

 

[KING_OF_SAND]

Motherboard: Asus P5Q Deluxe

Card 1: 8800GTX

Card 2: ?

Operating system: Ubuntu 10.04

I need to run at least 3 monitors, 4 in the future. The 8800GTX is running two, i need a second card to run another two. Price is really around £30.

you are going to need to buy a second 8800gtx for SLi. but not sli i would recommend a 9800gtx+ they are only about $100, well at least were i live.

 

[I Hunta x]

you are going to need to buy a second 8800gtx for SLi. but not sli i would recommend a 9800gtx+ they are only about $100, well at least were i live.

you can use monitors on a second card if its in sli from what i remember with my 7800gtx's

IF you just need the second card for extra monitors anything will do tbh, something like a 8400/8600/9600gt would be ideal as they use not much power, i used one of my old 7800's for a 3rd screen a while back and it was fine.