See my previous reply.
Do you think the mobo I have would support 3 of these P600 cards? This is probably going to be my fallback if the Sapphires just refuse to work.
Testing with 12 HDMI displays tomorrow.
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See my previous reply.
Do you think the mobo I have would support 3 of these P600 cards? This is probably going to be my fallback if the Sapphires just refuse to work.
Testing with 12 HDMI displays tomorrow.
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Office 365 allows you to run excel in a browser.
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OS for the Raspberry Pi is Linux based so free.
Please see my comments concerning their excel needs. They need to run 64-bit office to display/use the sheets they need to.
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Have you tried opening the spreadsheet via the Excel web browser app?
Your motherboard only has 2x physical pcie-16x slots, so no - 2 at most (for 8x displays)
HDMI (or even DVI) displays could equally be the issue with any of these 4+ display graphics cards - ideally you want native displayport displays
No we haven't as their documents are stored on a NAS and not in o365. I wouldn't think they would want to move data around just for this purpose.
However, I'm forgetting the more important reason they need to run the office applications. They display mailboxes in outlook. They won't be able to use the outlook web app for this as they adjust the view settings in outlook a whole lot to get it to display how they need it to. The web app would not give you this flexibility.
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Excel online doesn't support VBA.
This motherboard has 3 x psychical PCI-e slots that claim to be x16 capable. From vendor website:
"3 x PCIe 3.0 x16 (x16/x0/x4, x8/x8/x4 modes)"
The GPU's claim to be able to run all 6 to HDMI using 2 x passive adaptors and 4 x active adaptors, which we have.
EDIT: Ignore me - just realised you ended up with the MSI
https://www.msi.com/Motherboard/MPG-Z390-GAMING-EDGE-AC
Claims and reality are often quite different - the less adapters/converters involved the better. I wouldn't even bother with passive adapters - stick to active if you really must use adapters, but as above - native displayport is really the way to go in multi-display setups.
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Probably why you can't use more than 8x screens on 2 cards - if 4 on each are using active adapters, then the other 2 on passive adapters probably won't work.
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I hear ya! But as they are running structured HDMI over Cat5 from the office floor to the comms room from TV's, I don't think DP is going to be possible.
On the upside, thanks to an earlier poster, I've solved the video lag issue by putting the decoding on the CPU rather than the GPU's and it's running a treat with 6 videos at the same time.
Makes sense - It'd be worth trying Active adapters on all connections then, as they are more likely to be successful than the passive adapters in my experience - this might be why you have had issues getting more than 8 screens to work
I'm really happy to report that my rig was a great success. The two Sapphire cards came through in the end and are doing the job. Here was my test with 12 monitors over HDMI all running 1080p video. I used two passive adaptors for the first two MDP's in each card then active for the rest. To Sapphire's credit, they do what it says on the tin in that respect!
Now installed in their comms room and running all 12 TV's through the structured cabling between floors!
Phew
Would like to thank you all for your help. Some of you gave some really useful advice.
Now installed in their comms room and running all 12 TV's through the structured cabling between floors!
Phew
Would like to thank you all for your help. Some of you gave some really useful advice.
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Excellent news, glad you got it setup and working.
I thought this too! But it seems that it isn't the case. I installed no third party software for the cards aside from their drivers and windows seemed to handle 12 no problem at all.
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Putting aside the graphics issue, if you are running so many outlook instances and large complicated, macro filled, spreadsheets have you actually got enough memory and processing power to actually make this a usable experience?
I'd also question, assuming this is a commercial environment, whether it is a good idea to put all your eggs in one basket using a single system in this instance. You are using consumer grade hardware so if something fails its not as if you have an SLA'ed support contract to swap things in a short time. Having more than one system each driving a subset of screens would probably make setting things up easier, put less load per system, and mean that if a machine went down you would at least have some screens still available.
I'd also question, assuming this is a commercial environment, whether it is a good idea to put all your eggs in one basket using a single system in this instance. You are using consumer grade hardware so if something fails its not as if you have an SLA'ed support contract to swap things in a short time. Having more than one system each driving a subset of screens would probably make setting things up easier, put less load per system, and mean that if a machine went down you would at least have some screens still available.