This office has two users who both want to be able to use three monitors at their desks, says a pilot fish who’s tasked with making that a reality.

“I spec’ed out a video card with enough outputs — this card had two DVI outputs, a DisplayPort connector and an HDMI port — and got the card and monitors ordered,” fish says. “Because the users’ desks only had openings at the far corners, and the workstations were under the desks, I also ordered some extra-long cables — two DVI cables and an HDMI cable.”

The PCs also have pretty minimal power supplies, so fish orders 450-watt replacement supplies, each with an extra six-pin output to power the new video card, which takes up two slots and has two cooling fans.

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