6 monitor setup

ahenners · 11 Dec 2013 at 15:56

Does anyone have any experience of setting up a 6 monitor display from one PC where all screens are capable of showing different things (no mirroring)?

I am wondering what is going to be the best way to do this. The screens are all 1920x1080, mainly DVI and VGA, and will not be used for gaming. It's for monitoring stuff in an office so FPS and 3d performance isn't an issue.

Is it going to be feasible from 1 GPU, or am I looking at a crossfire/sli setup? Any advice appreciated!

Judgeneo · 11 Dec 2013 at 16:00

For 1 GPU I think you would need something like the Matrox M9188 PCIe x16

It might be possible with a dual gpu setup, but I don't know.

stuie · 11 Dec 2013 at 16:00

dual card only I would suspect due to needing 6 ports, I dont believe any current single gpu can drive 6 screens

^JP^ · 11 Dec 2013 at 16:09

You could see if you can find an Eyefinity 6 Edition 7870.

Would need some Mini DisplayPort adapters though.

Yaayuh! · 11 Dec 2013 at 16:11

As said, there are Eyefinity 6 cards out there. You will need adapters as they're all mini-DP.

http://www.club-3d.com/index.php/products/reader.en/product/radeon-hd-7870-eyefinity-6.html

http://www.powercolor.com/Global/products_features.asp?id=415

ahenners · 12 Dec 2013 at 13:44

Thanks for your input all. Looks like the R9 280X Matrix supports 6 displays via 2x DVI and 4x DP, so will go down that route along with some active DVI or VGA adapters to connect the other screens.

sunama · 14 Dec 2013 at 15:36

What if he did the following:
used 1 video card to drive 3 monitors.
used the on-board (motherboard) gpu to drive 3 screens.

I believe that the Intel IvyBridge and Haswell CPUs can drive 3 screens.

I currently have a similar setup, where 2 screens are driven by my onboard GPU and 2 screens are driven by my ATI/AMD video card.

Surely, this would work, right?

R121 · 18 Dec 2013 at 22:08

My Experiance

Hi AndyH_Lufc

I think your going to need at least two graphics cards for this I have got two ATI HD7700 running 6 x Dell U2412's. The other things your going to have to consider is a 1000w + PSU, Monitor mounts I brought a off the shelf one (cost £200) but I took that off and I custom mounted them all on the wall (cost £40).
I wish I had saved the money and made the custom one in the first place.

I use my screens for the same reason as you to monitor different machines and using multiple virtual machines.

I will post some pics of my set-up if you want?

R121 :cool: