Setting up quad monitor setup, help?!?

Nanaea · Aug 15, 2013

Hi everyone,
I'm currently on the market to get a triple + one monitor set up and a new graphic card to withstand this set up and I need a little help.
So here's the run down, i want to run 3 Asus VX238H plus a LG 42inch TV (full HD), the TV is just off my viewing angle and is not generally used but I'd like it to be connected and working at all times since it comes in very handy, the 3 monitors will be side by side. I don't want any clone screen, I'd like to have them all in a extended set up.
Even though I will be gaming I just want/need the center monitor or the TV running the game so the other monitors will just have internet pages open or Teamspeak or something similar.
As for the graphic card I have in mind in getting either 2x GTX 760 right now or 1x GTX 770 right now and add another one later (3 months down the road).

So here are the questions:
1- Is it possible to set this up?
2- How do I connect all those monitors to either card set up, what adapters do I need? (the TV will run on the HDMI)
3- Do I connect all the monitors to the same card?
4- I know that in SLI only the master card uses it's memory so I'm thinking of getting the master card with 4GB and the slave with 2GB is this ok and possible, or just a bad idea? The cards in question would be a EVGA GeForce GTX 770 4GB Dual Classified with the EVGA GeForce GTX 770 as for the 760 it's the EVGA GeForce GTX 760 4GB paired with the EVGA GeForce GTX 760, please notice that these cards may run on different speeds, is that a problem?

The motherboard can take SLI set up and so can the power supply.
I can't think of anything else but any advice is welcome

Thank you!

chugot9218 · Aug 15, 2013

That is not the way SLI works, you will only have access to 2gb VRAM if one card is 4gb and one is 2gb. The faster card will also underclock itself to match the slower card.

You would need to utilize all 4 ports, so if the monitor does not have displayport, you will have to get an adapter: One Dual Link DVI-I, One Dual Link DVI-D, One HDMI, One DisplayPort

Err, you can utilize the ports on the other card as long as you are not trying to run a 5760x1080p resolution, if you are going with SLI.

Nanaea · Aug 15, 2013

chugot9218 :

Before anything thank you for your answer

So then I if I go for SLI I should just get both cards with 4GB?
I don't quite understand what you mean by using that 5760x1080p resolution? Doesn't it mean that the fact that I'm running 4 screens on extended mode mean that they are at 7680x1080 ???

The Q6660 Inside · Aug 15, 2013

Nanaea :

Hi everyone,
I'm currently on the market to get a triple + one monitor set up and a new graphic card to withstand this set up and I need a little help.
So here's the run down, i want to run 3 Asus VX238H plus a LG 42inch TV (full HD), the TV is just off my viewing angle and is not generally used but I'd like it to be connected and working at all times since it comes in very handy, the 3 monitors will be side by side. I don't want any clone screen, I'd like to have them all in a extended set up.
Even though I will be gaming I just want/need the center monitor or the TV running the game so the other monitors will just have internet pages open or Teamspeak or something similar.
As for the graphic card I have in mind in getting either 2x GTX 760 right now or 1x GTX 770 right now and add another one later (3 months down the road).

So here are the questions:
1- Is it possible to set this up?
2- How do I connect all those monitors to either card set up, what adapters do I need? (the TV will run on the HDMI)
3- Do I connect all the monitors to the same card?
4- I know that in SLI only the master card uses it's memory so I'm thinking of getting the master card with 4GB and the slave with 2GB is this ok and possible, or just a bad idea? The cards in question would be a EVGA GeForce GTX 770 4GB Dual Classified with the EVGA GeForce GTX 770 as for the 760 it's the EVGA GeForce GTX 760 4GB paired with the EVGA GeForce GTX 760, please notice that these cards may run on different speeds, is that a problem?

The motherboard can take SLI set up and so can the power supply.
I can't think of anything else but any advice is welcome

Thank you!

I highly suggest you use Dual 4GB 760s for that setup. If you use a 2GB 760 with a 4GB 760 in SLI, it will limit it to 2GB. Connect all the monitors\TVs into the topmost card.

chugot9218 · Aug 15, 2013

No, if you are using standard extended display, it is technically 4 1080p monitors that you can navigate between, it does not use processing to combine them to "trick" your PC into thinking it is all one display at 5760x1080, which is what you need to enable that resolution for gaming. If you think you will need 4gb VRAM then yes I would get 2 4gb cards, otherwise you are wasting 2gb.

Nanaea · Aug 15, 2013

So then only if I wanted to play a game using the 3 screens combined then I'd have to connect them to the topmost graphic card? Since i don't I can connect them whichever way I want
Do you think I need 4 GB ??

k1114 · Aug 15, 2013

Sli does not have to plug all monitors on the first card like cf. If you aren't going to game on 3 monitors, then you don't need 4gb. But it seems like a waste not to use all the monitors when you can.

Nanaea · Aug 15, 2013

I mostly want this to work and the games I do play the most (LoL and Dota) would just get harder in a triple monitor set up

, given what I've been told so far I'd probably put the 3 monitors on the same card and the TV on the other so I could avoid buying the display port adapter.

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