two or more dvb-s card on the same pc

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Hello. I am now having a dreambox 600 clone receiver but i want to buy pci or pci express dvb-s cards with hd. First of all my pc is a quadcore amd with 8gb of ram running windows 7 x64 os with three monitors 24". So i want to watch a different channel on each monitor. Is it possible? What is best to buy 2 dual tuner cards or 3-4 single tuner? I manage to change my lnb to quad so i have more outputs for my news cards to connect. i am about to use dvbviewer. Is it possible to run more than one instances of the program or it can handle the 2-3 cards so i can watch on different monitors with on instance of dvbviewer opened.
 
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You can have two, maybe more instances of DVBViewer running on the same PC, as long as they are in different folders in C:\Program Files. As long as you have plenty of RAM, which you seem to have.

Two pci cards will work OK if you don't have any driver conflict. May be better to have two of the same type, maybe two Skystar HD2's (Or Hauppauge WinTV Nova HD's.)
 
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