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My video card has 1x DVI, 1x HDMI and 3x DP outputs.

 

I'm looking to hook up triple screens, but most of the medium end monitors on the market only run HDMi or DVI, DP is left to higher end monitors. How do you actually do this on most modern GPUs? 

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My video card has 1x DVI, 1x HDMI and 2x DP outputs.

 

I'm looking to hook up triple screens, but most of the medium end monitors on the market only run HDMi or DVI, DP is left to higher end monitors. How do you actually do this on most modern GPUs? 

Something like this.  http://www.amazon.com/Startech-DP2HDMI-DisplayPort-Adapter-Converter/dp/B0017K6BDW

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displayport can adapt 

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Do these work well? I've had trouble in past with computers running these sort of adaptors (primarily VGA to HDMI and that for relatives). 

 

I'm also assuming there is no way to use the motherboard video plugs but run that through the GPU? 

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Do these work well? I've had trouble in past with computers running these sort of adaptors (primarily VGA to HDMI and that for relatives). 

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you can get display to dvi cables pretty cheap and they work well, was using 1 of them with my set up until i got a new monitor that supported display port

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Do these work well? I've had trouble in past with computers running these sort of adaptors (primarily VGA to HDMI and that for relatives). 

 

I'm also assuming there is no way to use the motherboard video plugs but run that through the GPU? 

the cheap adapters are a reason why DP is so damn awesome.

 

i know a company where *every* monitor in the company runs off of a DP to *something else* adapter.

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Do these work well? I've had trouble in past with computers running these sort of adaptors (primarily VGA to HDMI and that for relatives).

I'm also assuming there is no way to use the motherboard video plugs but run that through the GPU?

HDMI and VGA have no compatibility with each other and therefore require signal converters which can be finicky.

DisplayPort on the other hand can reliably adapt to HDMI or Single-Link DVI without any signal conversion, and it is exactly the same as if your DP port were actually an HDMI port or SL-DVI port itself when you use an adapter.

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