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jetman
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Noob needs help please

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I need help on figuring out how to hook up one video card to three monitors it will be used primarily for trading stocks and playing 2d games the card I am getting is a msi r6870 twin frozr it has 1xHDMI port 2xmini display ports and 2xDVI ports one single link and one dual link the monitors have one HDMI port and one dvi port if someone could please help me with what cables and adapters i need and how to hook them up Iam ordering the computer parts tomorrow for my dad and would like to make one order thanks for the help.
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Pick up one of these active

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Pick up one of these active mDP adapters for display #3: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814999034

Plug display #1 and #2 into the DVI ports.

I'm going on the assumption that you're using three 1080p 24" displays with DVI ports. You didn't mention display type in your post.
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jetman
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the monitors have HDMI vga

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the monitors have HDMI vga and dvi so the one monitor will use the adapter to the display port thanks for the info.
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