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6 Monitors?

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My girlfriends dad works from home as a commodity trader and uses 2 monitors for his trading etc but this results in a fairly cluttered screen. He asked me to find out the best way to get a 6 monitor set up, assuming he gets 4 more fairly cheap monitors how can we get the computer to output to 6 monitors?
 
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probably use two pci graphics card.
if you cant, then maybe look into a pair of matrox triplehead but it wont come cheap.
 
You'd only need the triplehead if you're planning to run accelerated 3D (a game, for example) over multiple screens. For just a desktop, a motherboard with 3 PCI-e slots, 3 cards and two screen plugged into each card should work fine.
 
Just get two:-

Asus ATI Radeon HD 3870X2 1GB 4 x DVI, then you could run 8 screens.

many modern boards have 2 x PCI-E slots, obviously he wouldn't be using crossfire as he's just doing desktop stuff.
 
Exactly - as long as you're just running desktop applications, you can have as many screens as you have outputs. More cards = more outputs.
 
You don't necessarily have to use computer screens either though I'd imagine the picture quality would be better on them.

I use the S-Video conection on my computer for one of my screens giving me an option of three screens on a single card (2 x DVI and 1 x S-Video)
 
Antar Bolaeisk said:
I use the S-Video conection on my computer for one of my screens giving me an option of three screens on a single card (2 x DVI and 1 x S-Video)
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I'll think you'll find that if you can only run 2 displays, if you enable s-video then one of the DVI's will be disabled.

That's how it used to work anyway :)
 
I have a Matrox Triplehead (analogue version) and it does the job fine. Some issues though:

- When installing on Vista it bust an MS XML file and nuked Internet Explorer which was annoying (don't miss it that much tho ...) :rolleyes:

- I have one widescreen monitor and as this deviates from conventional screen ratios, it can't handle this in triple monitor mode so on my widescreen monitor the images looks stretched (but I can live with that). :o

If he's a commodity trader I expect he can stretch to the cost.

Another alternative I guess is just to buy some big monitors that can run at high resolutions.

Rgds
 
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