Quad Crossfire

[BadHavok]

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,

 

[BadHavok]

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,

 

[BadHavok]

Bump!

Really need some help with this! I need to setup the computer this week! (for my MD...they always need everything yesterday)

 

[BadHavok]

Cool, I did that already, I just hope someone on this forum owns one!! Or if someone who works there can have a look??

 

[BadHavok]

Asus website appears to be down atm but wen it returns try searching the product number there.

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?

 

[BadHavok]

Go to the webnotes and ask sales mate

Cool, thanks, I've now done that

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

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!

 

[BadHavok]

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!