Max number of screens useable on one PC

[Ultra_Extreme]

Hey guys simple question really, how many screens can i hook up to a single pc to use as a continuous desktop? I trade stock and also sports exchanges and there just isnt enough screen real estate with 2 currently

Many thanks

 

[JeffyB]

Most modern ati cards can supprt tripple monitor setups they also do eyefinity 6 cards that can support upto 6 monitor from 1 card, there are probably some professional solutions that can support more though.

 

[Ultra_Extreme]

ok thats great, just wasnt sure if it would be as simple as getting triple SLI or something and having monitors on all the DVI ports guess not.

 

[tommybhoy]

Sapphire do a HD 6950 FleX edition that has direct support for 3 DVI monitors in Eyefinity mode.
So if you have 6 dvi monitors, then I guess 2 of them would be your best bet.

You can get up to 24 screens with amd:

 

[JeffyB]

So much bezzle!

 

[drunkenmaster]

For gaming the cards need to be linked and theres a limit, for simply desktop I'm not sure you're limited by anything other than pci-e slots.

Any bog standard 58xx series card will output to 3 screens though theres some limitations in that only two can be dvi, one (on most of them) have to be display port, meaning by a display port screen or get an active display port to dvi adaptor, though I believe theres cheaper dp to vga adaptors.

6xxx series cards, hell, to be honest I can't remember, 4 screens is more standard, easier outputs and adaptor compatibility, more dongles that make life easier with eyefinity special edition cards. For both series there are eyefinity 6 screen models.

For desktop only you can get one of the made 6 pci-e slot mobo's, put in 6 6450 cards and have a ridiculous number of screens, though for linking together in game/eyefinity there is a limit, but each can run basically independantly of each other running as many screens as they can.

I'm sure theres a limit somewhere, and it depends how much you play the stock market, crazy billionaire daytrader might want 20 screens each with dedicated stocks. I'm assuming 1-2 more screens would do you, simple option is display port monitors, any 5xxx/6xxx series card maybe get a specific 6 screen edition.

If you want gaming + more screens, Nvidia can do 2 per card, or surround(not sure if its more than 3 to be honest?) when using SLI, for desktop only I'm sure you can add a whole load of independant cards.

Basically if you can add display port screens your options are more open and numbers go higher more easily, if you're stuck on dvi, a couple cards would probably work best for you or a card that comes with display port to dvi dongles.

 

[sypher365]

There are also a number of Eye-Infinity 6 video cards available which have 6 mini-displayport outputs and you just add whichever output dongles you need.

Of the 6XXX range know of a PowerColor HD6870 2GB GDDR5 Eyefinity 6 Edition

But if you look at the ATI 5870 range sapphire, HIS + a few others made them if you google 'Eye-Infinity 6' should pull up a few reviews.