4 screen setup

Hello

I just purchased a new quad core PC from Dell.. I am lookimg to get a graphics card to powerw 4 screens. Can anyone point me in the right direction for a quad pc card?

Thanks

Get xfire graphics cards or just stick a splitter on it.

i got 2 cards for 80 each from pc world, hope the pc you got has the right ports,when i got my new pc i got an xp downgrade and put in 2 pc express cards.Hope youve got enough of the same type of port to do this.pC world business section will always help.

matrox do good 4 output cards or just get 2x dual output

Thanks for the response guys. Do you mean get 2 PCI express cards? will all cards be compatible with each other and also will my motherboard be able to output to 4?

If i remember correctly i dont think i have 2 PCI-e slots. can i use one PCI-e and one PCI?

star-trader said:

Thanks for the response guys. Do you mean get 2 PCI express cards? will all cards be compatible with each other and also will my motherboard be able to output to 4?

If i remember correctly i dont think i have 2 PCI-e slots. can i use one PCI-e and one PCI?

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Hi
both cards have to be of the same manufacturer...and share the same family of the drivers. Try buying the Motherboard with two PCI express that will make it future proof if anything and give you a option to expand later. by the way MB does not llimit the number of monitors, its you Gfx card. read the specs and look for Max monitor supported.
Nvidia NVS 440 is a single card that can output 4 monitors. its bit pricy i thing arnd $400. Buy this one if you have limited PCI express slots or want tohave more than 4 monitors in futur.
hope this helps.

Joker:clap:

jokepie said:

Hi
both cards have to be of the same manufacturer...and share the same family of the drivers. Try buying the Motherboard with two PCI express that will make it future proof if anything and give you a option to expand later. by the way MB does not llimit the number of monitors, its you Gfx card. read the specs and look for Max monitor supported.
Nvidia NVS 440 is a single card that can output 4 monitors. its bit pricy i thing arnd $400. Buy this one if you have limited PCI express slots or want tohave more than 4 monitors in futur.
hope this helps.

Joker:clap:

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You could have the 4 monitors using any combination of PCI Express, PCI and onboard graphics. Usually onboard graphics are slower and use the system memory. The cheap solution is to get a PCI- Express card and a PCI card (assuming you only have one PCI-Express slot).

If using XP, Nvidia and ATI cards could be used together. Under Vista, they should both be ATI or both be Nvidia. Within the family they should be using the same driver (if you want to use the native Vista drivers).

Currently, the choices for fast and inexpensive PCI graphic cards are slim.

I would recommend Direct X 10.0 cards if using Vista.

I personally have a more experience with NVidia than with ATI. You could get an NVidia 8 series (around $50) or 9 series (around $100) PCI card. Comparable speed PCI-Express cards would be 30-50% cheaper.

You could pair a 9 series PCI-Express card with an 8 series PCI Card. Nvidia 9 series could also run CUDA.

You could check out the PCI desktop video cards at Newegg.com - Computer Parts, PC Components, Laptop Computers, Digital Cameras and more!.

Hope this helps.

butchi_n said:

I personally have a more experience with NVidia than with ATI. You could get an NVidia 8 series (around $50) or 9 series (around $100) PCI card. Comparable speed PCI-Express cards would be 30-50% cheaper.

You could pair a 9 series PCI-Express card with an 8 series PCI Card. Nvidia 9 series could also run CUDA.

You could check out the PCI desktop video cards at Newegg.com - Computer Parts, PC Components, Laptop Computers, Digital Cameras and more!.

Hope this helps.

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Hi,
I paired a geforce 6200 PCI card with 9800 GT and works fine. 6200 is the cheapest PCI that can be pared with the 9 series.

hope this helps

joker

BT Shop - Matrox Triple Head 2G0 (T2G-A3A-EUF)

Matrox Graphics - Products - Graphics eXpansion Module

What about just buying one of these to save p*ssing about inside your pc.

gedward3 said:

BT Shop - Matrox Triple Head 2G0 (T2G-A3A-EUF)

Matrox Graphics - Products - Graphics eXpansion Module

What about just buying one of these to save p*ssing about inside your pc.

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EVGA also makes similar USB-to-VGA boxes that costs (seen them lately for around $35) much less than this Matrox. So, need 2 or 3 of these (EVGA boxes), depending on whether the onboard has DVI in addition to VGA port.

However, the disadvantage with these is that - they do not support resolutions higher than 1280*1024. These days 20" and 22" widescreens (1680*1050) are only slightly more expensive than the 19" displays ($130/$150 Vs $100 in US when they are on sale). So, probably makes sense to get 20" instead of 19" displays. Even 24" displays are becoming more price competitive (on price/pixel basis).

Also, not sure how the graphics performance and USB throughput compares to the PCI/PCI-E cards.

This is my set up with quadcore

star-trader said:

Hello

I just purchased a new quad core PC from Dell.. I am lookimg to get a graphics card to powerw 4 screens. Can anyone point me in the right direction for a quad pc card?

Thanks

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Dell Precision T3400| Vista |core2 QUAD CORE Q9300 2.5GHz/1333/6Mb cache | 4Gb 667 RAM 2x2 | 250Gb 7200 disk | DVDRW |TWO 256Mb NVS 290 graphics cards |

Have had it for 3 weeks, works great with 4 screens-hope that helps

bootsyjam said:

TWO 256Mb NVS 290 graphics cards |

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This is what you will require for extra monitors. 2 twin or 1 quad output graphics cards. I use the same cards - Nvidia NVS 290's hooked up to an HP workstation, but check with your manufacturer.

If you only wanted to use one slot then the quad version is Nvidia NVS 440, but when I looked at them last this worked out marginally more expensive.