• Competitor rules

    Please remember that any mention of competitors, hinting at competitors or offering to provide details of competitors will result in an account suspension. The full rules can be found under the 'Terms and Rules' link in the bottom right corner of your screen. Just don't mention competitors in any way, shape or form and you'll be OK.

Card Upgrade dilemma - multi monitors

Vodder

Vodder

Vodder

Associate
Joined
25 Sep 2008
Posts
27
Currently I run 4 monitors off the one PC. This was done using a NVIDIA Geforce 6200 and a Quadro NVS 280 - both normal PCI

Last week I built a pretty sweet 2.8 Quad Core with 8GB RAM and an Asus P5Q deluxe motherboard. So now I'm at the dilemma of what GPU to now use.

I don't play games, so it doesn't have/need to be £100's. What it does need to do though is handle High Def, video, multiple screens and trading apps.

I've always gone Nvidia so was looking at perhaps an 8800GT for about £60 to partner either of my old cards. However I'm thinking perhaps its best to ditch the old cards and get 2 more up to date ones. My MOBO does Crossfire not SLI so ATi would work for 4 monitors - or do I not even need to do that?

Am thinking 2 3850's? Or maybe 2 8800's not in SLI? I'm guessing it's not good to mix ati and nvidia?

Thanks
 
Crossfire and SLI link the two cards to speed up the output to the monitor(s) attached to just one of them so is not what you need. I agree with ck88's suggestion and am buying a 4670 or two myself very soon.
 
Jeez that card certainly looks kick arse for what I need! And can't argue for £120 for 2 of them! :) As I'd prefer to have 2 of the same rather than mixing models or chipsets.

Reviews say it is very good too and very quiet - which is a must!

http://www.xbitlabs.com/articles/video/display/powercolor-pcshd4670-512mb_16.html#sect0

I'm guessing you wouldn't Crossfire them though? As you say crossfire is to use both GPU's for one output that would take away the ability to use both cards for multiple monitors?
 
I might be wrong but I don't think SLi has support for multi monitors - so if you want to run both cards in a multi-GPU configuration you'll need to go Crossfire.

If you're not fussed about that though, just get two of whatever card takes your fancy - apart from the ATI offerings, the 8600 series cards are also a good choice.
 
to run four monitors you wont want them running in crossfire as they will be outputting to separate screens. Should work fine with your new setup.
 
Aye that's what I was thinking (about the crossfire), though can always try and see what happens. Typical OC though, they have put the price up by £5 since this morning! They did exactly the same thing last week with the HX620 PSU I bought, swear they are monitoring my posts!!
 
You must log in or register to reply here.
Back
Top Bottom