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Graphics cards for 4 x 42"

volkan

volkan

volkan

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Hi There,

I am specing a new computer to run 4 x 42" plasmas/lcd monitors to display our network performance graphs and monitoring in the NOC.

Each monitor will be running at separate instance of Zabbix via Firefox, so nothing too fancy.

Could someone recommend a graphics card that can handle 4 (or more) monitors at 720p?

Cheers!
 
Yup, unless it would be more cost effective to have two cards each support 2 monitors?

I will check out the Eyefinity.

Cheers,
 
For your use it's probably best to get two single cards. Even with an Eyefinity card they usually only support up to 3 screens due to the connectors at the back, unless they have more than one Displayport present. Even then, you still need to buy adapters if your monitors do not have Displayport. Displayport to DVI adapters need to be active, and they're usually £20+. However, Displayport to VGA works just as well and you can get them for under £5.

If I was you I would just go for two cheap cards and have them support two monitors each. Any card will do as you're not really doing anything GPU intensive.
 
For business use go with a Matrox card. They do the best types of multi screen cards and their drivers are solid and won't give you headaches.
 
Thanks guys,

The Matrox M9148 looks perfect and is within budget. I think we may actually go for the Matrox M9188 as we are looking at adding new monitors within 6 months.

Thanks again.
 
Maybe this is sorted out, but I think an Nvidia NVS 450 or NVS 420 would be perfect.

I'm running an NVS 450, and it will handle spanned 1080p video over 3 screens. The cards are low powered and established technology. They are not fast like modern gaming cards, but handle DirectX 10 and compatible with Open GL 3.0. They are powered by the same GPU in a Gefore 8400, so look at benchmarks for a Geforce 8400 to get an idea of performance. For someone with a high end gaming card that sounds terrible, but these are built for low power and reliability!

http://www.nvidia.co.uk/object/product_quadro_nvs_450_uk.html

As someone pointed out above, you can purchase 2 NVS 295's (I own these cards also). Basically a single NVS 450 is 2 NVS 295's on the same card. 2 NVS 295's can still be spanned into a single desktop screen. The technology is called Mosaic, however it only works on Windows 7.

You can do any mixture of these cards, so you could have 2 x NVS 450's for 8 screen spanned, or 1 NVS 450 + 1 NVS 295 for 6 monitors spanned.

Hope that's helped.
 
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