I'd like a video card that can do 3 displays at once, one of which is s-video. Exist?

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NoQuarter

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soccerballtux said:
Here was my search:
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...e=2328%3A14104

I searched for a video card that cost more than $100 and had any of the s-video out options.

My plan is to continue using my dual monitors, and then I'd like to tack on my TV via s-video out for the purpose of winamp visualizations while listening, netflix when going to bed, etc
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As far as I know it's very rare for a card to support TV-out anymore even if you try a VGA->S-video adapter. One of those $40 PC -> TV boxes might work though, in the Video Cards & Video Devices > TV Tuners & Video Devices section
 
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it may take two cards.

I believe some of the 260 series have s-video i know the 285 did. You can use two 2x0 with s-video out to run 3 displays.
 
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happy medium said:
I dont think his board wil work with 2 gtx's, will it?
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It can, they just won't be in SLI. You can still run multiple graphics cards concurrently they just can't share workload in games if you don't have SLI or Crossfire respectively.


http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16814150450
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Nice find. Keep in mind that it is still limited to two legacy outputs at a time (VGA/S-Video/DVI/HDMI). Since it has no DisplayPort outputs (which is the only way OP will be able to drive 3 monitors off 1 card) this doesn't completely solve his problem.

However if this is going in the rig in the OP's sig he can put this card in the secondary PCI-e slot and run the TV off it, and run the other 2 monitors off the 4890 in the main slot.
 
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lol waste of electricity, but mainly even when they did support svideo it was pretty poor, flickery and general screen sizing issues, i fiddled with it back in the day and it was never worth the effort. hdmi video card output on hdtv on the other hand..works great.
 
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soccerballtux

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0roo0roo said:
lol waste of electricity, but mainly even when they did support svideo it was pretty poor, flickery and general screen sizing issues, i fiddled with it back in the day and it was never worth the effort. hdmi video card output on hdtv on the other hand..works great.
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I've configured it on mine, works great, the flickering was due to connector not fitting in correctly.

I guess I'll be checking craigslist for a card that has s-video out, I'd like to keep this to $30 or less.
I didn't know using a 2nd card would be an option, figured that would mess up gaming on my current one or something.

edit: Hm so I can get a 6600GT PCI-E card for $25. Would it be OK to put Nvidia with my 4890?
 
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0roo0roo said:
lol waste of electricity, but mainly even when they did support svideo it was pretty poor, flickery and general screen sizing issues, i fiddled with it back in the day and it was never worth the effort. hdmi video card output on hdtv on the other hand..works great.
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I have 2 TV's being driven by S-video. One from my HTPC which is an nVidia card (6600gt), and one that's being driven by a Dell Inspiron 6400 laptop with the Ati mobile x1400 in it. Both work absolutely flawlessly with no flickering whatsoever.

I know, I know: I'm living in the past with my tube TV's, but I don't really care. They do the job and I don't watch that much TV anyways. Mostly just Netflix stuff, and alot of that is still 480 content. It looks better on a tuber at that resolution anyways.
 
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