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4 monitor new card

washo

washo

washo

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Hi,

I am going to purchase a new everyday PC that needs to be able to support 4 monitors.

Is the best setup for 4 monitors - 2x graphics cards or 1 card with 4 outlets. Can you suggest the graphics card(s) that I should get, cheaper the better.

Can you mix PCI-E x16 and PCI-E x1 ports?

Will be used for browsing, MS Office and photo editing via Photoshop - no gaming.

Thanks
 
What resolution are the screens you're connecting, are they identical make and models or mixed? What inputs do they have? Does your motherboard have any graphics outputs, and if so what CPU and board do you have?

The answer will depend A LOT on the answers to the questions, mate. :)
 
New gtx 1050 should do the trick for cheapness , but as mentioned , all depends on your screens and their connection. G1 models looks to be one of the quiestest but also depends if your after a card for flash looks etc (I used a strix for that).
 
All mixed older screens unfortunately. Probably a good 5 years old. Mixture of VGA and DVI.

It is going to go into a new PC probably I5 processor. Again PC depends on the monitors.

Thanks all
 
i7 if your doing heavy Photoshop and large ram :) if light stuff i5 should be fine .

1050 and rx460 would offer cheap , low power option .
Most of the 1050 offer a dvi and 2 HDMI and Max monitors is 4 , converters can he used. Last two are DP so again converters but haven't seen any myself.
 
An i5-6600K (or i7-6700K) will happily support up to 3 screens, provided the motherboard you choose supports the right ouputs. If it was me, I'd look for a motherboard that has a DVI and a VGA output, then get the cheapest GPU you can find that has a DVI and VGA output on it - something like an Nvidia 210/610/710, or an AMD 5450/6450. That way you don't need to get any adapters to run the third/fourth screen from a particular source.

Just make sure you watch out for the difference between a DVI-D port and a DVI-I port on a motherboard/GPU. DVI-I can be connected to a VGA monitor using a cheap adapter, DVI-D can only be converted to VGA using a more expensive Active adapter.
 
Another option is if the motherboard has HDMI, you can use a HDMI to DVI cable which works just as fine.

Just get a motherboard that can support at least 2 monitors on the IGP and you're free to go with any low end discrete GPU.
 
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