Can you recommend a 5 display output graphics card

[Jaymes]

Hi guys,

This is my first post here.

I'm in the process of building an office PC.

I have 6 screens and would like to use a graphics card that has at least 5 display outputs, such as the GEFORCE GTX 950 GAMING 2048MB GDDR5 PCI-EXPRESS GRAPHICS CARD - https://www.overclockers.co.uk/msi-...ddr5-pci-express-graphics-card-gx-299-ms.html

I love the fact that it has 5 different display outputs as it means I just need to use one of my Plugable USB to HDMI connectors.

If you guys can recommend a similar graphics card, please let me know. I won't be playing games on this PC, but will be trading, hence the need for 6 screens.

I can go to around the £200 mark.

I look forward to hearing from you guys.

Thanks,
Jaymes

 

[gthlm]

FirePro W600 is designed for your use case. It has six displayport outputs.

You can find used ones in your price range.

 

[Armageus]

What motherboard/processor?

The majority of intel chips/motherboards can use the processors integrated graphics alongside a separate graphics card.

Motherboards with 2x PCI-E x16 slots are also common these days, so you don't have to limit yourself to relatively expensive cards that do 5 or 6 screens, you can buy 2 cheaper cards that do 3 screens each.


With that 950 and other graphics cards, don't get carried away looking purely at the number of display outputs - that isn't always representative of the number of displays they can drive concurrently e.g.

- Maximum Display: 4

 

[henson0115]

as above, intel mainstream boards come with around 3 display options nowadays. so theres a starting point. usb-c can also be used to convert to hdmi/dp even vga etc. so potentially 4 on a z170, 270 or 370 alone. give us your board for better suggestions

 

[Rroff]

Though some consumer graphic cards might have say 5 outputs you can't necessarily use them all at once and/or might be resolution limited on some displays due to some connections sharing output hardware, etc. so you'd have to check that - this is one area where workstation cards tend to differ as usually if they have 5-6 outputs they can use all 5-6 outputs at full resolution all the time.

EDIT: I see Armageus covered that oops.

You might need to consider things like the Matrox TripleHead2Go and devices of that nature as well if you are running a lot of displays.

 

[Sasahara]

If your build the PC from scratch just go down the 2 GPU route, just make sure you have enough PCI-e connections on the motherboard for your requirements.

It's the easiest option and probably the cheapest option as you can use pretty basic GPUs if it's just for display rather than GPU acceleration.