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Best video cards for 3 monitors?

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http://askubuntu.com – I am looking to purchase a new video card and I want to run three LCDs side-by-side. I normally would buy NVidia, but from what I have read, ATI is the leader in multi-monitor with their Eyefinity technology. My Hardware My motherboard is a ASRock P67 EXTREME4 GEN3. The Dell UltraSharp U2412M monitors I'm looking to buy have DVI, DisplayPort, but no HDMI. My current video card is a GeForce 8800 GTS. It has 2 DVI ports. It would be nice to just add a second card, but I'm willing to replace it entirely. My Software Currently running Ubuntu 11.10 amd64, but I will probably install 12.04 s (HowTos)

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