2 External DVI Displays on MacBook Pro Retina Display

Hello,
I have seen all the 3 external display setups for the RMBP and all that stuff going around the internet showing how thunderbolt displays and HDMI can be used together.
I have also read about how daisychaining works for 2 apple thunderbolt displays.
But i was wondering if i can use two external displays on my retina MBP buy using a mini DP to DVI converter. Then attaching a DVI splitter to this converter and connecting the two ends of the DVI splitter to 2 DVI displays.
This is setup we use at my work. The splitter is nothing fancy. It connects to the dvi output on our PC computers and we connect it to our two monitors. to get dual displays.
Or will this not work and I will have to use both my thunderbolt ports to run 2 mini DP to DVI converters? (slash will that work?)
Advice will be very much appreciated!

You can, but you need additional hardware to do so:
http://www.matrox.com/graphics/en/gxm/products/mac/home.php
Hope this helps...

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