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Need a quad screen capable graphics card

SuperSaiyan4

SuperSaiyan4

SuperSaiyan4

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Hi all,

Am looking to build a PC for someone but they want a graphics card that can output to 4 screens is there such a card and if so does Overclockers sell it? The screens will most likely be VGA screens but will be able to get adaptors for them so they run on DVI.
 
Im all confused I thought AMD did one? Could someone please link me directly to a graphics card that can output to 4 screens without having to buy 4 graphics cards please? >.<
 
Thanks for that but isn't there gaming ones? What about these pc's running all these high end games on like 4 monitors?? I would have thought there would have been better spec'ed ones.
 
What are you trying to do at 640*480 res ? - Any low end card should be fine as at that res you will most likely be cpu limited before the gfx card comes into play.

The 590Gtx and 6990 are both sli/x-fire hybrid cards, with 2 gpus slapped on them, so as Lay-z-boy suggests you could get 2 cards. Maybe it's best you explain what screens you have, and what you are trying to do with them.
 
Basically the person I am building it for wants to use it for work and is looking to use 4 old screens the old square ones not wide screen so they will probably be vga only I have encouraged this person to get up to date screens but they prefer the older square design (flat panel monitors) due to word and excel spread sheets appearing as square instead of stretched onto widescreens it sounds weird I know but that is what this person wants.

So I could get 2 cheap cards and get adaptors for them to run off the cards mentioned that helps a lot so I will look into doing that instead.
 
SuperSaiyan4 said:
Basically the person I am building it for wants to use it for work and is looking to use 4 old screens the old square ones not wide screen so they will probably be vga only I have encouraged this person to get up to date screens but they prefer the older square design (flat panel monitors) due to word and excel spread sheets appearing as square instead of stretched onto widescreens it sounds weird I know but that is what this person wants.

So I could get 2 cheap cards and get adaptors for them to run off the cards mentioned that helps a lot so I will look into doing that instead.
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http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=GX-147-OK
If that is all he wants it for then that one will do fine and run the four monitors with no problems.
 
^^ Yeah, if its just office stuff and no gaming and using VGA connectors then look for a pair of cheapy GPUs assuming his board has 2x PCI-e x16 (physical) lanes - you can plug in one VGA plus one VGA via DVI to VGA adapter to each card and no SLI/CF required.
 
You'll have trouble running 4 VGA screens from the OcUK HD 6950.

It has 1 Dual Link DVI-I, 1 single link DVI-D, 1 HDMI & 2x Mini-DisplayPort.

1 VGA monitor would connect using an adapter to the DVI-I.

2 VGA monitors would connect using the miniDP and approx. £40 worth of adapters.

I don't see where the 4th card would connect. You can't use the DV-D connection because it doesn't provide an analogue signal for VGA and HDMI has no analogue signal either.

The cheapest option is a pair of cheap Nvidia or ATI cards which have DVI-I and VGA outputs. Run then as separate cards, not in SLI or Crossfire, and then you can connect 2 monitors to each card, 1 with a DVI-I to VGA adapter and one directly to VGA.

Something like the MSI GeForce N210 1024MB GDDR3 "Low Profile" PCI-Express Graphics Card or the Sapphire ATI Radeon HD 6450 HM 512MB GDDR3 PCI-Express Graphics Card.

You'll need two physical x16 PCI-E slots for this but they don't need to run at x16 speed.
 
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