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Recommend me a graphics card please.

Pogue

Pogue

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Ok, nothing too exciting, I need a graphics card capable of running 4 x 19" monitors for work use. I mainly do a bit of photoshop, spreadsheets, ebay and Amazon listings etc, as I said nothing too exciting.

Is there a card that will run 4 monitors at once?
 
What case do you have and what power supply?

You are probably best with a quadro, but if you got the space and the power then depending how the monitors are connected you could get a 6950, they go used for £50 and supports up to 6 monitors.


Though I just read gt640 is meant to support 4 monitors and will be cheaper than the card I said above, don't know if it sells new or not anymore or if you can find a gtx 660 as that's also meant to support 4, otherwise if you want new your looking at like a 970/380 unless you just find a card with display ports.
 
What motherboard/processor do you have and what inputs do the monitors have?

Depending on whether you have any onboard graphics, you can usually run 1 or sometimes 2 monitors from there, and use a dedicated graphics card for the remaining ones.

Another option if you have 2x PCI-E 16x slots, is to have 2 cheap graphics cards with 2 monitors each - running 4 monitors from a single card (unless the monitors support displayport) is actually quite difficult.
 
Ok, this is what I have put together, would this work?

I can push the budget up by £200 if necessary

My basket at Overclockers UK:

Total: £635.48
(includes shipping: £44.58)
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I have Hard drives, a 450w PSU and ATX case, KB/Mouse etc
 
Good choice on the monitor, I have 2 of those.

FYI if you have support for dual cards then those you listed won't work as they not sli capable, you will need to aim little higher.
 
CyberCrow said:
Can't see the gpu doing to well on 4 x monitors with photoshop, " Memory Amount: 1GB DDR3"
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1GB will be fine even for Photoshop - (* only circumstance it wouldn't be is if GPU acceleration was being used, in which case much better cards would be needed anyway)




Pogue said:
Ok, what about 2 of these ....

My basket at Overclockers UK:

Total: £43.38
(includes shipping: £7.39)
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They will be fine (but ignore the other poster, the GT610 would be fine as well)



ExoMale said:
FYI if you have support for dual cards then those you listed won't work as they not sli capable, you will need to aim little higher.
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You don't need SLI (or indeed want) in order to use 2 cards for 4 displays - install the cards, connect 2 monitors to each, and then run screens in independent mode (i.e. under Windows control panel - Multiple Displays: Extend desktop to this display). SLI is only needed for gaming - not multi displays.




subbytna said:
Two of those cards will still only give you 2 gig of video ram. You don't get 4 gig by adding 2+2....it remains at 2.
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Not sure why people keep suggesting a need for huge amounts of VRAM? The 2 cards is for 4 display outputs, nothing else. A 1080P 2D image uses about 8MB of VRAM. VRAM is only an issue when using 3D apps i.e. Games or GPU accelerated packages. Photoshop can be GPU accelerated, but not mentioned in the original post, otherwise a better GPU would be recommended.
 
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Armageus said:
1GB will be fine even for Photoshop - (* only circumstance it wouldn't be is if GPU acceleration was being used, in which case much better cards would be needed anyway)






They will be fine (but ignore the other poster, the GT610 would be fine as well)





You don't need SLI (or indeed want) in order to use 2 cards for 4 displays - install the cards, connect 2 monitors to each, and then run screens in independent mode (i.e. under Windows control panel - Multiple Displays: Extend desktop to this display). SLI is only needed for gaming - not multi displays.






Not sure why people keep suggesting a need for huge amounts of VRAM? The 2 cards is for 4 display outputs, nothing else. A 1080P 2D image uses about 8MB of VRAM. VRAM is only an issue when using 3D apps i.e. Games or GPU accelerated packages. Photoshop can be GPU accelerated, but not mentioned in the original post, otherwise a better GPU would be recommended.
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Perfect, all the answers in one post :) Many thanks I appreciate it.
 
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