Upgrade church pc to use 4 monitors

blogwiz

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I don't want to mess this up, so I thought I would ask the experts.. :)

Our church PC is a HP ENVY h8-1417c. It uses a NVIDIA GeForce GT 630 graphics card:

HDMI resolution: 1920 x 1080 (1080p)
DVI (dual-link) resolution: 2560 x 1600 x 32bpp at 60Hz (not sure what this means)
Analog VGA resolution (with adapter): 2048 x 1536 x 32bpp at 75Hz

Currently we have our projector connected to the HDMI port, one monitor to the DVI and another monitor hooked up via a USB cable to a USB 3.0 port through an adapter.

We want to add another port so we can add another projector that shows the same thing as the other projector. I would like to have everything hooked up through a graphics card rather than using a USB port if possible, but that's not a big deal.

I would really appreciate it if someone could tell me my options for setting this up. Would I also need to upgrade the power supply (460W)?

Thanks and Merry Christmas!!
 

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I haven't done very much much multi-monitor stuff but modern graphics cards come with one hdmi port, 1 displayport, and 1 hdmi port. http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814150688 this one is $130 and includes all those ports and I think you would be able to hook all four up to it but I might be wrong, and there might be cheaper options with the same number of ports but you'd have to browse around. And your current power supply should be fine.