One PCI-e supporting 4 monitors....

Matrox has several cards that have 3 or 4 monitor support, not sure of the models tho.
 
Here you go, its $800 though...

If you don't need more than 1280x1024 per screen, you could also get any duel headed vido card you want and plug a TripleHead2Go into that. You would get three screens off the triple head to go and one more off the 2nd head on the video card.
 
Also what you can do is search around on these sites that sell multiple monitor setups. I know at my local computer store (Computer Builder's Warehouse), they had this thing they could drive up to 4 monitors off of (1) DVI port on any graphics card. It was really simple the way it worked too. What it did was the DVI port on the graphics card was hooked up to this video breakout box that looked like a little network router/hub. (might have had USB too.. not sure?) It had 4 DVI outputs and 1 DVI input. You just hooked up however many monitors you wanted, then you could control the resolution or how you wanted them oriented through software in windows. I don't know how much it costed, but I thought it might have been in the $300 to $400 range.
 
Actually, you might also want to check out any dual DVI graphics card, then just add a Y-splitter. You'll be able to control the resolutions and orientation independently right in windows. You can use up to 4 monitors using a dual dvi graphics card and 2 y-splitters.

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w1retap said:
Actually, you might also want to check out any dual DVI graphics card, then just add a Y-splitter. You'll be able to control the resolutions and orientation independently right in windows. You can use up to 4 monitors using a dual dvi graphics card and 2 y-splitters.

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Just note, those splitters only work on duel link DVI ports. Most video cards only have one duel link and one single link, so you might have to shop around to get one with 2x duel link DVI.
 
Unknown-One said:
Just note, those splitters only work on duel link DVI ports. Most video cards only have one duel link and one single link, so you might have to shop around to get one with 2x duel link DVI.
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ah, thanks for correcting me. I believe this would be the cheapest solution for what hes looking for. Even the lower end cards now include dual-link dvi ports.. such as the 7600gt, x1300, etc.
 
Unknown-One said:
BTW, know of any place that sells them?
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the splitters?

Ebay, froogle, specialized cable stores online.. Its going to probably be impossible finding them in retail stores. I've never seen them anywhere.

http://www.compukart.com/products/individualItem.asp?groupcode=I3553

Just make sure the end you connect to the graphics card is DVI. Make sure it isn't that 59/60 pin weird dell/pny connector. That would not work. The link above is the correct part you would need.
 
hrm.. now that I think about it though, I'd be a little leary before spending all that money on a dual dvi graphics card, and the splitter to find out it _might_ work. I would consider just getting a dual dvi graphics card for the PCI-e slot, then adding a 2nd graphics card in the PCI slot. That would be the most campadible with the system probably yielding the best results.
 
w1retap said:
the splitters?

Ebay, froogle, specialized cable stores online.. Its going to probably be impossible finding them in retail stores. I've never seen them anywhere.

http://www.compukart.com/products/individualItem.asp?groupcode=I3553

Just make sure the end you connect to the graphics card is DVI. Make sure it isn't that 59/60 pin weird dell/pny connector. That would not work. The link above is the correct part you would need.
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You sure thats the one were looking for? The website says "Splits your video signal providing simultaneous display of the same picture".
 
Unknown-One said:
You sure thats the one were looking for? The website says "Splits your video signal providing simultaneous display of the same picture".
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yea.. refer to post #11 I made. I've seen people using them on quad or more monitor setups, but unsure if they work correctly with all cards and software. I thought it just wouldn't be worth the risk to spend money to find out it _might_ work.

2 graphics cards would be more reliable.
 
If you use a PCI card, try not to use different brand products to the PCI-E card.
You may get lucky with an ATI and NVidia card in the system but many people have problems with setting the correct one to be the primary.
Sometimes one driver disables the other cards driver and it can be tough to fix and maybe not possible.

A much cheaper and guaranteed solution (compared in price to getting a 4 port card) would be to get an SLI motherboard and fit another card of the same brand.
Dont run it in SLI and you will have 4 screen capability.
 
Chernobyl1 said:
If you use a PCI card, try not to use different brand products to the PCI-E card.
You may get lucky with an ATI and NVidia card in the system but many people have problems with setting the correct one to be the primary.
Sometimes one driver disables the other cards driver and it can be tough to fix and maybe not possible.

A much cheaper and guaranteed solution (compared in price to getting a 4 port card) would be to get an SLI motherboard and fit another card of the same brand.
Dont run it in SLI and you will have 4 screen capability.
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although this is true and works very well, i doubt that a new mobo + gpu purchase is needed.

I'd say running one PCI based card is your best bet.

I think matrox makes a 3 monitor card but;'s it's vga
 
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