Motherboard Upgrade - Three Monitors

[WCressman]

I'm currently running three VGA Envision LCD monitors off an old Abit BH6 motherboard with an AGP 2X dual head video card and a PCI motherboard. I use the PC mostly for business applications with little gaming, sadly.

I'm looking to get a motherboard that supports a Pentium Prescott 3ghz, but I'm confused as to my video card options. Is there anything out there that supports my old video cards, or will my old video cards compromise performance too much? If not, should I be looking at an AGP or a PCI-Express solution. Presumably for PCI-Express I'd need two slots, with one slot supporting a dual monitor set-up and one card supporting a single monitor.

Thanks,
Wayne C.

 

[vailr]

An "AGP 2x" card MAY not work in most (or any?) P4 motherboards, which are usually "AGP 4x/8x". However, your video card may actually be "2x/4x", and thus would work.
An inexpensive replacement card might be: a Radeon 9600 card. Newegg.com's refurbished Radeon 9600 cards can be found for ~$60 to ~$80.
PCI Express motherboards usually include one, or several, PCI slots; which would allow re-using your existing PCI video card.