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2016/05/04 16:41:57 (permalink)

Recommendations for a new video card that works well with Sonar?

My old card has finally died. I'm looking for something that will run three monitors. I don't play games on my studio pc. 
 
What works well for you?

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    microapp
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    Re: Recommendations for a new video card that works well with Sonar? 2016/05/04 17:59:02 (permalink) ☄ Helpfulby tenfoot 2016/05/04 19:57:13
    If you do not do video work, get the cheapest card you can which runs 3 monitors.
    I got an EVGA brand HD6450 ATI card which runs 3 1920x1024 monitors just fine. I think I paid < $50. ALso it is fanless which is a big plus in the studio. This chipset may be obsolete (I got it ~3 years ago) but I am sure you can find something similar. Mine works with Win 10 (in fact W10 found the driver all by itself) and before that win 7 & 8.1 too.
    For DAWs I advise against hi-end video cards. They take up PCI lanes and power and can be finicky with some mobos.
    ATI/AMD chipsets also seem to provide more outputs on cheaper cards than Nvidia.
    Be sure to get the proper PCI or PCIe that fits your motherboard.
    Here are a quite a few.
    https://www.amazon.com/s/...TF8&qid=1462399046
    IIRC I got the 1GB one which are really dirt cheap now.
    Tigerdirect.com used to have a search for option that included number of outputs ot just google video card 3 monitors.
     
    post edited by microapp - 2016/05/04 18:29:14

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    Re: Recommendations for a new video card that works well with Sonar? 2016/05/04 18:50:59 (permalink)
    Fanless Radeon cards


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    Re: Recommendations for a new video card that works well with Sonar? 2016/05/09 13:36:28 (permalink)
    Thanks for the responses. This confirms what I was already thinking, which is that I need to get away from Nvidia.

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