2 more screens?

tommac · Jun 27, 2008

Hi--I am running a newish Pc with 2 screens at the moment and want to add 2 more.
I am told that all I need is another PCIE card to slot in the (available) slot and hey presto. Is it really that simple?
As you can tell I know squat about computers and my nearest PC "shop" is 60 miles away. ( joys of highland living).
Its a fairly beefy system so I believe it should run ok. --(Quad core with 8mb RAM Windows xp 64 bit) Sorry if this has been discussed at length somewhere.

new_trader · Jun 27, 2008

Try this site:
ATi Fire MV

Looks like this is the card you want: Nvidia Quadro Nvs 440 Pcie X16 256MB 4PORT, according to Amazon, customers who bought items like this also bought: How I Made $2,000,000 In The Stock Market by Nicolas Darvas.

tommac · Jun 27, 2008

Tks--i`ll take a look.

ofurbaldur · Jun 27, 2008

You need a slot yes.

or you can get a 4 port graphics card and use the slot your current card uses.

x16 or x1 slots

Many computers have only one x16
so your additional card needs to be x1

Nvidia NVS cards are great.

Baldur

BerkshireBull · Jun 27, 2008

new_trader said:
Try this site:
ATi Fire MV

Looks like this is the card you want: Nvidia Quadro Nvs 440 Pcie X16 256MB 4PORT, according to Amazon, customers who bought items like this also bought: How I Made $2,000,000 In The Stock Market by Nicolas Darvas.

Or if you're looking for something cheaper, I have one of these running in my workstation. It's only dual output rather than quad.

PNY NVIDIA Quadro FX 550 VCQFX550-PCIE-PB - PC World Business Online Store UK - Buy The Best Deals Online.

£125+ VAT from PC World

Before you buy a card, just check what inputs your monitors have. Some are VGA, some are DVI, and some are both.

minx · Jul 1, 2008

BerkshireBull said:
Or if you're looking for something cheaper, I have one of these running in my workstation. It's only dual output rather than quad.

PNY NVIDIA Quadro FX 550 VCQFX550-PCIE-PB - PC World Business Online Store UK - Buy The Best Deals Online.

£125+ VAT from PC World

Before you buy a card, just check what inputs your monitors have. Some are VGA, some are DVI, and some are both.

If you have 2xPCI x16 slots then you can just use 2 cheap dual monitor cards, shouldnt cost more than £100 for the pair.

tommac · Jul 1, 2008

Ok thanks for tips--Manufacturer reckons I can just slot a PCIE card in alongside the existing one
( he says there are 2 spare slots) which currently runs 2 screens. Should enable up to 4 screens.

JTrader · Jul 2, 2008

I think i'm going to add a 3rd screen to my setup, so that i can display 2 chart platforms and my brokers window in seperate screens. Not essential, but just to give me a bit more breathing space, so i don't need to be swiching windows etc. Can do this on my current old school pci as i have a dual head pci graphics card, and a dual head agp graphics card.
Though I'm soon gonna buy a new PC, and get 3 TFT monitors.

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