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    Best triple output card (£50-£100)

    Hi all,

    Looking for some advise on what the best card I can get for £50-£100. It must support 3 displays and be fanless for silent operation:

    2 LCD monitors which have DVI and VGA connections will be used for 'working'
    1 HDMI out used to display XBMC on TV.

    My current setup is a AMD A10-5800K 4.2Ghz with 8GB RAM - so would I be right in thinking an AMD card would best suit this?

    I have narrowed down:

    AMD: Sapphire HD 7750 1GB GDDR5 ULTIMATE DVI HDMI DisplayPort PCI-E Graphics (at 85)
    Nvidia: Asus GT 640 2GB GDDR3 1782MHz DVI HDMI PCI-E Graphics Card (at £74)

    I don't game - so I'm looking for the cheapest and most reliable card. If the above are no good/over spec for what I need please suggest others.

    Many thanks

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    Re: Best triple output card (£50-£100)

    My understanding is that you can still use the IGP on your 5800k even with a discrete GPU, so you can go really cheap on something like a 5450 which is around £20.
    http://www.dabs.com/products/sapphir...ile--6L9B.html

    Strictly, it has all the outputs you need so...

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    Re: Best triple output card (£50-£100)

    Thanks, I did think about this but wasn't sure if it reduces overall graphics performance using such a low powered card.

    Or is my understanding incorrect? Will the APU 'boost' the performance of the 5450?

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    Re: Best triple output card (£50-£100)

    Quote Originally Posted by nicks88 View Post
    Thanks, I did think about this but wasn't sure if it reduces overall graphics performance using such a low powered card.

    Or is my understanding incorrect? Will the APU 'boost' the performance of the 5450?
    No it would likely make no difference. or be slower Either of the cards you mentioned would be OK imho, but the AMD with GDDR5 would be better than the Asus with DDR3 or the onboard APU which will rely on system RAM, again DDR3

    this Nvidia is cheaper with 1Gb GDDR5 : http://www.ebuyer.com/538378-gigabyt...-gv-n640d5-1gl

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