Graphic card help!!- day trading

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Robin91

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Hi everyone, can someone help me please?

I have tried to create my perfect day trading system, but something seems wrong.

I have:

Asus mobo
I5 2700k overclocked to 4.6 ghz ( so the company told me )
Corsair vengeance case
Corsair psu
8gb viper RAM

And:
2 GE force graphic cards ( sorry I don't know the model ) but I know they cost £20e on ebay used, they are both 1gb each.

My problem is I have LOTS of charts with real time data coming in.

I have 3 22" monitors but my mouse courser lags when moving and my charts lag slightly ( which in trading is bad! ). I want to connect my 40" tv aswell for another monitor ( there are reasons for this ).

I am scared it will lag more. I got told 2 graphic cards @ 1gb each would suffice, is this my problem?

All my other components are great for my needs, but I went cheap on my graphic cards.

I now am getting told I need 2 graphic cards @ 2gb each? Or 1 @ 3/4 gb

Can I have suggestions on my problem please?
 
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This card: GT 640 Should be more than enough for what you need to do. You should also look at your resource usage and tell us what you're running at.

Finally please do these steps:
1. hit windows key + r
2. type dxdiag and hit enter
3. In the window that pops up click "save all information"
4. Open the file you just saved and copy the system information.
5. post that in here.
 
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Robin91

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Hi all,

I am not near my pc sorry. I went trough my ebay history and believe it is the GeForce 8800 ( not sure if it's gt or gt S )

It is 1gb each card though.

Is this a bad card for my use?
 
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Robin91

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Thanks for your message, I think I had the GeForce 8800.

Will the 640 be enough for 4 screen, I know I would need 2 splitters

 
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If you have two Geforce 8800s you can SLI them, but you do need to physically attach a SLI ribbon between the two cards. I ran two monitors off a pair of 8800s sli'd but never tried three. A 640 will be able to run three monitors, however I believe the max resolution you can get in that setup is 720p as per the GeForce forums, maybe check out this thread: https://forums.geforce.com/default/topic/535366/gt-640-3-monitors-/
 
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Robin91

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Hi thanks for the reply, could you suggest a better graphic card than the 640 to run 4 monitors with a good resolution? As it's for detailed charts
 
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Robin91

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Erm my budget is maybe £100/150. And make doesn't bother me as I just would like a product that gives me:

No lag on my charts
A good resolution
No bottleneck for my system
Reliable

Also can I ask if you believe it is my graphic card causing the problem outlined in this thread?
 
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Well, if you wanted to start by adding an SLI cable between the two cards if you havent already will help if you are only actually using one GPU to run the monitors, that would be a quick first attempt to fix the issue.
 
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i'm running SIX monitors from two graphics cards, for trading, i don't have ANY lag issues, and the cards are now CHEAP.

my main 4-monitor card is a Galaxy GT610, which today costs around $60 on NewEgg. it has two outputs but each is DMS59 which splits into a left+right DVI.

my second card is an old BFG nVid 9400GT which outputs over DVI and VGA.

so, 6 monitors, 5 of which run DVI and 1 runs VGA, each is a 23" 1920x1080, all mounted to a wall in a 2high/3wide grid.

no SLI. no crossfire. no eyefinity. nothing special. just two cards. works great for basic 2D stuff like chart trading. and yes i run one chart full-size on each monitor, plus other stuff on the other two monitors. this stuff is NOT graphics-intensive for the hardware that's available.
 
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