PC for 6 monitors (non gaming)

ternity · 7 Mar 2018 at 17:09

Hi,

Client has asked for a PC to drive 6 monitors for finance and stock work.

He currently has 6 monitors that are ViewSonics VA2246-LED which have DVI and VGA inputs, so will obviously need some dp adaptors or hdmi adaptors.

What would be the best way to go about this? A 1060 for 4 monitors and a 1050 for 2? Don't want it to be so expensive for them, just something that works.

Needs an I5, 16Gb's of ram etc

Any help would be appreciated.

Thanks

BongoHunter · 7 Mar 2018 at 17:53

I would look at quadro cards from NVidia, or something like the VisionTek 7750

Not cheap to do on a single card!

2 triple output geforce 710/730 might do it, but I've never tried 2 cards in a system for that purpose

BongoHunter · 7 Mar 2018 at 17:55

Amd Firepro 3900 might do it too

C-Roy · 7 Mar 2018 at 23:49

As above pretty sure a FirePro can do it aswell. They're normally cheaper than Quadro's so worth looking in to.

Nikumba · 8 Mar 2018 at 12:54

Might be a worth a look at the Matrox range, they do big multi-monitor cards

orbitalwalsh · 8 Mar 2018 at 13:43

^^^ matrox their bread and butter

EsaT · 8 Mar 2018 at 14:15

Yep, that's where Matrox mainly focuses their products.

http://www.matrox.com/graphics/en/products/graphics_cards/c-series/c680/
And looking price comparisons that card is actually very reasonably priced compared to what gamers have to nowadays pay for higher end cards.

Similar priced AMD FirePro W600 would also support six monitors.
And there's some rather cheap Sapphire GPRO 6200.
http://hexus.net/tech/items/graphics/94675-sapphire-introduces-new-gpro-commercial-graphics-series/
Though Sapphire's drivers/software might not be as solid for six monitors as those of Matrox.

Habakkuk · 8 Mar 2018 at 18:38

Matrox is recommended - gaming cards tend to limit to ~3 max, though displayports can be chained IIRC

Admetos · 17 Mar 2018 at 03:20

If it's financial work then the client should be using Nvidia Quadro or Nvidia NVS range, the Quadro/NVS cards were first developed for financial traders and these cards are now pretty much standard in this area.

2 of these Quadro P400's cards would do it as they can run 3 monitors each.

https://www.overclockers.co.uk/pny-...s-card-2gb-gddr5-256-cuda-core-gx-05j-pn.html

Whatever you do don't get a Geforce or Radeon card, the issue is drivers that are optimised for games. In contrast the Quadro drivers the focus is more on stability, they have 2 driver branches one is Quadro New Feature driver (NFD) and the other Optimal Driver for Enterprise (ODE). ODE drivers are the most stable as these incorporate new features later then the NFD branch. Other advantages of these cards is everything is produced in-house by Nvidia so they have full quality control and testing under one roof of the cards.