And another one - Need a card or a recommended card set for 5 monitors

[Jez]

Hello again, after the very quick and very helpful replies i got to my HDMI card thread, thought i would ask here again about another requirement.

Right:

- I (for another machine) require a setup to support 5 (or ideally) 6 monitors - DSUB connections to all is fine.

- At the moment the machine has 2 cards in it, feeding 4 monitors, an Nvidia 7300GS PCIEx16, and an Nvidia Quadro NVS 280 PCI-32. With vista and win7 being weird about multiple gfx card drivers, they are installed using old WDDM MS drivers and are performing very poorly. I also want to upgrade to support a 5th and later a 6th display.

- The PC in question is a small form factor machine requiring low profile cards, and is equipped with 1*PCIEx1, 1*PCIEx16, and 2*32bit PCI slots, so obviously this limits my options.

What are my best options? I dont require any 3D capability, but do require perfect 2D, at the moment even dragging windows around the screens is laggy.

Thanks

 

[D13]

bump, sorry mate I havent got a clue but perhaps ssomeone about will.

 

[PhillyDee]

Matrox triplehead 2go. Thats about all I can recommend.

 

[feeddagoat]

2nd triplehead2go Gives 3 outputs for one graphics card output.

 

[elmuzzy66.]

CAn you run 3 cards not on sli/crossfire mode. 3x2 dvi connectors 6 screens. Don't know if it wroks though

 

[PwnDirect]

the triplehead to go is far to expensive & it still only outputs to 3 screens

imo the best soultion would be tri sli. which will require 3x9800gtx new mobo, case,psu, but if bought second hand would cost rougly the same as the triplehead to go.

Ofc you could also go trifire which would work out cheaper

 

[PhillyDee]

the triplehead to go is far to expensive & it still only outputs to 3 screens

imo the best soultion would be tri sli. which will require 3x9800gtx new mobo, case,psu, but if bought second hand would cost rougly the same as the triplehead to go.

Ofc you could also go trifire which would work out cheaper

And require a whole new pc for both. Im assuming the OP needs to keep with the small form factor.

Hence the only way is a dual output low profile card with 2 triplehead2gos. Unless you get 2x dual head PCI and a dual head pci-E card.

 

[dustofnations]

I think you can even get USB video output -> HDMI/DVI, although I'm uncertain as to whether they are laggy... That would probably be a last resort I assume!

 

[OldComputerGuy7]

I think if you could get hold of a cheap PCI nvidia card you may be able to use one of them.

Looking on this list
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_Nvidia_graphics_processing_units#GeForce_series

GeForce4 MX 440SE (PCI)
GeForce4 MX 440 (PCI)
GeForce4 MX 4000 (PCI)
GeForce FX 5200 (PCI)
GeForce FX 5700 LE (PCI)

There are a couple of geforce MX cards which were done in PCI not sure if they had dual output, but if you could get hold of one of them you might be able to make it all work.

Hope this helps some.

 

[Jez]

Thanks for the replies everyone, the matrox stuff looks limited resolution and feature wise, and isnt particularly cheap.

I guess it boils down to either getting a new pc (dont really want to, this one is recent and very nicely packaged, i dont like self build stuff really) or trying to find a couple of low profile matching PCI cards - difficult

 

[metamorphpwner]

have you looked at something like the Sparkle X-Link It's usb and adds support for upto 6 monitors.
don't know if it's any good to you.