Video card that supports 8+ monitors?

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Client wants to get into day trading and wants 8 monitors and maybe more.

This is uncharted territory for me. I'm just used to my 2 monitors setup.

What video card setup would support something like this?

The monitors would probably be 1920x1200 each.
 
Yow.

I would do multiple Eyefinity6 R7 / R9 cards. Throw a couple in a box and there you go, thousands saved. hah
 
atp1916 said:
Yow.

I would do multiple Eyefinity6 R7 / R9 cards. Throw a couple in a box and there you go, thousands saved. hah
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I don't know if you can do that. Never used sli/crossfire so no idea. Can anybody confirm this will work?
 
You won't be using them in CrossFire. They'll just be running on their own to power the monitors.
 
IceDigger said:
I don't know if you can do that. Never used sli/crossfire so no idea. Can anybody confirm this will work?
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Running two cards does not mean running in crossfire, and I doubt R5 level cards are capable of doing crossfire in the first place. They are just used as two independent graphics cards. Heck, you can even do one AMD and one nVidia card if you wanted to.
 
6850 can support 4 displays, Z87 can support another two. No need to add anything, lol.
 
Have either of you considered multiple 4K TVs? Might end up being less of a hassle than mounting and connecting 8+ monitors, and looking better to boot. Three 3840x2160 TV's would be the equivalent of 12x1080p monitors in terms of desktop real estate.
 
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Well I know its a video card but I don't know how advanced they have gotten or will get.

Basically I hear that windows 10 will allow "multiple desktops" and want to know if in the future having something like "3 desktops" one for each screen will be possible.

Is Microsoft thinking about advanced multi-monitor support? would I need something like a tesla for graphics processing? it appears to be a graphics card but without outputs, what does it do?

EDIT: Found my answer for Tesla
http://www.game-debate.com/hardware/?gid=945&graphics=Tesla K20
 
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captaindiptoad said:
Sooo... do these things like the quadro allow me to have basically 3 separate "desktops" as in each one can be its own functioning "desktop"?

basically I want to game on one monitor and have another "full desktop (taskbar included) on the other monitor(s) (I want 3)

Also, whats this tesla thingy.

http://www.nvidia.com/object/nvs-product-overview.html
http://www.nvidia.com/object/why-choose-tesla.html
http://www.nvidia.com/object/quadro-desktop-gpus.html
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Sounds like you want something along the lines of display fusion (not the free version):
http://www.displayfusion.com/
 
USB 3.0 video adapters would definitely be a cheaper option and most programs work just fine on them like excel,stocks,etc.
 
The problem with Eyefinity is you have to have DisplayPort monitors. So you can go that route if you're okay with that.

Otherwise just get a 4X SLI capable motherboard with onboard graphics. The motherboard will support 2 or 3 monitors if one is through displayport. Pretty much every budget card will support 2 and most mid-range cards will support 3. You can also find cards that support 4. So you could potentially do 18 non-displayport monitors like that.


I am running 8 monitors myself. I have SLI 770s powering my main display, a GTX 650 powering 4 monitors through DVI and HDMI, and 3 other monitors (2 hdmi and 1 displayport) through the onboard intel graphics.
 
sethk said:
Sounds like you want something along the lines of display fusion (not the free version):
http://www.displayfusion.com/
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Your awesome thank you.

sharknice said:
I am running 8 monitors myself. I have SLI 770s powering my main display, a GTX 650 powering 4 monitors through DVI and HDMI, and 3 other monitors (2 hdmi and 1 displayport) through the onboard intel graphics.
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Also this answered another of my questions.

Sorry about hijacking parts of this thread, finding information on multi-monitor support is hard.
 
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