How can I run 6 Displays of one machine?

Kribby2006

Kribby2006

Kribby2006

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As per the title, my boss has asked me how we can build an ops centre in which we can have upto 6 monitors running off of one PC?

Anyone know anything about this or can point me in the right direction?

Cheers,
Kribby.
 
You could run two of those matrox triple head thingies I guess.

Just checked their webby and they do a specific PPX and VPX solution which may suite your needs.
 
Displaylink would be the other option as it does it over USB, but has a low-ish max resolution.

The triple SLI mobo thing would probably be the way to go, but maybe check with nVidia directly (or on the user2user help forums) to see if anyone else is doing that kind of thing.

Can I also say: cool boss! :D
 
Most recent motherboards will support 2 PCI-E graphics cards and one or more PCI graphics cards.

I would suggest sticking with one graphics card manufacturer (ie. ATI or nVidia) but the drivers should cope fine under XP/Vista.

One nasty caveat is that some motherboards with AmiBIOS (instead of AWARD BIOS) can't cope with PCI graphics cards. The manufacturers keep quiet about this [I'm looking at you ASUS, GRRR].
 
I have a badaxe motherboard that has 3 PCI-E slots on it, I've ran 5 screens on it before fine, I could've ran 6 but didn't have an extra panel at the time, can be a pain messing about with the drivers sometimes though, I used 2x ati x600's and an Nvidia 6200.
 
get 2 Asus ATI Radeon HD 3870 X2 TOP 1024MB GDDR3 TV-Out/Quad DVI/HDMI as they have 4 ports so u can run 8 monitors off them :D
 
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