Graphic Card Addon Dell T110 II recommendation for 3 monitors

It should be able to take pretty much any PCIe GPU so the only limiting factors are the power supply wattage and the connectors for the displays (unless you want to use adapters). I've dropped a NVIDIA GeForce 210 into one of those and it's worked perfectly fine for two displays but that wasn't doing anything too graphically intensive. It might be possible to use the integrated GPU to run the third display when using something as low powered as the 210 but I've never tested that.

Hi,
I have Dell T110 II server with 8GB RAM and planning to connect it to three monitors for one project. I need advice on which graphic card to buy which will support this server and if someone has already tried such scenario, I mean connecting graphic card to server based hardware.
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