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I bought this mother board here and it comes with a VGA, DVI, and HDMI port. Is it possible to hook up 2 monitors and a TV or will that kill my graphics card if I tried to set up a TV with a monitor on each side. I understand that three monitors are unnecessary but I just have 2 monitors and a TV, but I don't want to try it and something fatal happens to my motherboard. Can anyone confirm or deny this?

Well, I don't know if it can output to three things at once, but that would make your framerate less than a third of what it could be.

If it has the processing power to do it and your OS supports three monitors (Any modern OS should, idk), it shouldn't be a problem. I run a TV and my monitor, TV at 1920x1080 and monitor at 1680x1050 and I don't lose much framerate on games I play, it's not going to be cut down to a third unless you're running several high-framerate processes, such as games, etc. Any normal usage shouldn't give you a problem. If you're looking to like, play a game spanning three monitors, that's something you'd want to look around for details on for your setup. To answer the question, nothing catastrophic should happen simply from hooking up and using three monitors.

A professor at my college told me something about I can only use VGA or the DVI port, can't use both, but my roommate who work at the computer help desk at the university told me that you can hook up both, and that adding a TV shouldn't be catastrophic. I'm not using my computer for high end gaming. I will be running programs like gmax, photoshop, and halo apps all at once to make halo CE maps. Like I said before, I understand 3 monitors is overboard but I just happen to have 2 monitors and a TV and want to make sure before I hook them all up, it won't kill my PC.

You should be fine to use them all at once. I'm using DVI and VGA ports for my monitors. Even if it doesn't work, it won't mess up your computer or anything like that.

I just settled with using the HDMI output to my tv. Looks purrrrrrrrty. I'm keeping it for now, more than satisfied . Thanks for the help.