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Quad Crossfire

BadHavok

BadHavok

BadHavok

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Hello,

I'm looking at making a quad crossfire setup so that I can run 8 monitors, however I have the Foxconn Renaissance, and it has really closer PCI-E slots.

I'm looking at buying 4 of these 4850's

The graphics cards I bought from another site came with a large fan that is obstructing me adding another two, even though the picture showed it to be a single slot card with stock fan (like the one above).

Has anyone bought the above graphics card, or can OcUK confirm that the above card will only take up one PCI-E slot and has no large fan.

Many thanks,
 
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Also, I've never dealt with more than one screen before, we're purely only using it for displaying CPU intensive apps (trading platforms), there is nothing required from the cards themselves to do... Will I be able to purchase the 4830's or even a 46##? and still run 4-8 screens at a max of 1920 x 1080/1200?

Thanks,
 
Bump!

Really need some help with this! I need to setup the computer this week! (for my MD...they always need everything yesterday)
 
Dont see any reason why lower spec cards wouldnt do the trick provided that they each have two outputs as your not running gfx intense programs.

Asus website appears to be down atm but wen it returns try searching the product number there.
 
4 4850's would probably be overkill, you could most likely get away with a lower specced card, because with 8 monitors, just running simple colours and 2d shapes and text, 4830s would probably be ideal for what your looking for - save you quite abit as well. You could go cheaper if to weren't using such high resolutions.
 
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I think this was discussed before, and it seemed that three 4850s were the sweet spot as they scaled well, but the scaling on the fourth was quite poor.
 
Surely the scaling only matters when running in xfire, i dont think the OP actually needs to run the cards in xfire as he just wants them for their outputs.
 
creed said:
Asus website appears to be down atm but wen it returns try searching the product number there.
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I tried doing that, but the picture looked different, and had many different models.

No, I don't need to run them in xfire (I don't even think 4 cards work like that atm), I will wait until someone lower down than the MD in the company needs 8 screens before I try 4 4830's.

I think this will need to be confirmed by OcUK themselves... Does someone know if I can call and ask a question like this/they can answer on the phone? And, if this card isn't single slot, can they provide me with one that is?
 
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Phunky Phish said:
Go to the webnotes and ask sales mate
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Cool, thanks, I've now done that :)

HeX said:
Yeah you don't need cards of that spec.

Just grab 4 x cheap PCI-E cards that have dual DVI and you'll be fine.

Something like this:

http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=GX-178-SP&groupid=701&catid=56&subcat=168
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My only worry about this is that even though there aren't heavy duty graphic programs, as they are traders, the information has to be shown in graphs... which I have no idea how much work the GPU actually does. As it's our MD and CEO, they don't mind spending the money, if a normal user ever requires 8 screens, I will then try out a solution like above as it will cut the price!
 
Unless the graphs are rendered in 3D then they'll be normal a normal 2D app and even the most basic of cards will be able to output that no fuss.

If you were worried you could always use 3650's instead, but honestly anything higher is total overkill for the situation you are describing.
 
Cool, thanks, I guess I'm trying to setup computers that are Lan Gaming compatible for when me and my boss hire a few other IT staff :) .... when two are on night shifts... we're going to be sorted with 2x £2500+ computers with crossfire!
 
BadHavok said:
Cool, thanks, I guess I'm trying to setup computers that are Lan Gaming compatible for when me and my boss hire a few other IT staff :) .... when two are on night shifts... we're going to be sorted with 2x £2500+ computers with crossfire!
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lmao, nice one, let me know when you are setting on!
 
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