For the third display I found a sub 500 buck laptop with HDMI and I was done without any of the headaches others had.
So I cheated.
Bob
I'm going to be getting a new computer soon, and the idea is to have one high end computer replace two mid-level systems, since one of them was just a HTPC/backup system.
So, what I'd like to do here is have two monitors that function as your normal desktop monitors, and then have my HDTV function as a third monitor which will perpetually have XBMC running on it, and just be turned on and off as I want to use it to watch a movie or something.
This would be done by a PCI-E video card probably driving the two desktop displays, and then a cheap PCI card to drive the third. No gaming, but there will be some 1080p video playback. I have no preference towards either nVidia or ATI cards, but the system will be coming with an nVidia card as the primary.
I've been doing a little Googling, and it looks like some people are having issues with getting more than 2 monitors working with Win7. Some of these seem to refer back to the old beta and RC releases, and I can't really seem to find much that relates to the final retail build.
So has anyone managed to do this, or should I be looking at building some small HTPC?

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