Recommend a 4-DVI video card?

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Cronyx

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No brand loyalty here, and gaming isn't really a priority. Single card, support four monitors over DVI. Over PCIe obviously. Here, this might be easier:

  • Four simultaneous live DVI headers (4 monitors active at once)
  • Single card
  • Windows desktop only (no gaming priority, some video editing)
  • PCIe

Would like to keep cost between low to mid range. Like I said it's not going to be running Farcry 3 or anything.

What do you guys think?
 
What application software will you be using?

Why not get a standard AMD 78xx-79xx and use a couple of Displayport adapters?
 
rtangwai said:
What application software will you be using?
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It's for someone else, and they're not a gamer. I only said video editing as a kind of short-hand to make sure I picked the most demanding non-gaming function. He should be able to do anything, short of gaming, with zero performance hit.

rtangwai said:
Why not get a standard AMD 78xx-79xx and use a couple of Displayport adapters?
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I don't know. Cost? I assumed something like that would run higher than garrable's suggestion. Speaking of which...

Garrable, that second one you linked looks like a winrar. I just had a reservation about this line:

Support for 3 display gaming in full 1080p

I'm assuming that's just an in-game limitation right? It'll put out four signals in Windows?
 
Cronyx said:
Garrable, that second one you linked looks like a winrar. I just had a reservation about this line:

Support for 3 display gaming in full 1080p

I'm assuming that's just an in-game limitation right? It'll put out four signals in Windows?
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That would be my assumption, because Nvidia's surround only supports 3 displays and not 4. From what I've read on that site and others you can use 4 displays at desktop but only 3 for games.

The 7850 wouldn't be a bad idea (certainly faster than the 560 and a generation newer) but I'm not sure if it would work with cheap passive mini-displayport to dvi adapters or if you would have to go with more expensive active adapters.
 
garrable said:
The 7850 wouldn't be a bad idea (certainly faster than the 560 and a generation newer) but I'm not sure if it would work with cheap passive mini-displayport to dvi adapters or if you would have to go with more expensive active adapters.
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So this guy will run both the two DVI connections and the two Display port connections simultaneously (provided I have the right adapters)?
 
garrable said:
I'm not sure if it would work with cheap passive mini-displayport to dvi adapters or if you would have to go with more expensive active adapters.
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You need active adapters for anything above two displays. The active ones are under $30 each (for single link - up to 1920x1200 resolution), though, so it's not a huge deal.
 
Usually with 4 DVI's you'll have those pigtails that split into two. I don't think ive ever seen a card with 4 physical DVI ports.
 
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