trioxin1308

Hello all!

Let me introduce myself, i am Trioxin, a relative newbie to the hardware end of computers!

I really want to run three monitors at my home, and looking for a bit of advice on how to do it. My current setup is a Dell XPS 400 with an Nvidia 7600GS card in the PCI-E x16 slot. 1 gb ram, 2.8 Ghz Pentium D, 375W powersupply and plenty of harddrive space. I do have a 1x PCI-e Slot (cant use it do to location) and a 4x PCI-e slot (cant find a pci-e card that fits this slot in newegg) and 1 open PCI slot ( I can have two if take my modem out that i never use).

I've googled the heck out of this topic, seen y connectors, motherboards with dual PCIe slots, etc, but not a lot on my specific 3 monitor setup ideas.

Can I just add another card, a PCI one and hook my monitor up to that? The Nvidia 7600GS i have does have two ports out the back, and I am currently running dual monitors. Some one at work told me I should pick another Nvidia card, since thats what I already have running on my system.

I was looking at Newegg and saw a Nvidia Fx5200 PCI card, would this work for me? I would like a DVI output on the 2nd card.

Newegg.com - EVGA 128-P1-N309-LX GeForce FX5200 128MB 64-bit DDR PCI Video Card - Retail

Absolutely any reccomendations and suggestions are apprecatied!

Thanks,
Trioxin