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I am looking to build an 8 monitor trading computer and I have a few questions. I have never had to connect 8 monitors before, what is the best way to go about doing this? I want to keep the price low. Can I put in 4 video cards that have dual monitor connections? What motherboard/graphics card setup do you recommend? I'd like to keep the amount spent on graphics cards to be around 400 and no more than 150 on the motherboard. Thanks!
 
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dual Asus GT640-2DG3 cards. they run 4 screens each.
any motherboard that has dual PCIe lanes, 8x/8x is fine.
i3/i5 is enough

my setup is:
i5-3570k
ASRock Z77 Extreme3
dual Asus GT640-2GD3 cards
one Asus GT610-1G Silent LowProfile
2x4G GSkill ram, DDR3-1600

I run 1 touchscreen from the onboard graphics**, 3 from each GT640, and 1 from the GT610. this leaves me with 4 spare ports (1 mobo, 1 on each 640, 1 on 610) in case I want to put monitors in the kitchen, bathroom, ceiling, etc


** the reason I do this is because the GT640 cards don't support UEFI boot, but the onboard does. I rarely need to go into BIOS, but if I do I use the touchscreen. once in Win8.1 everything works as it should
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dual Asus GT640-2DG3 cards. they run 4 screens each.
any motherboard that has dual PCIe lanes, 8x/8x is fine.
i3/i5 is enough

my setup is:
i5-3570k
ASRock Z77 Extreme3
dual Asus GT640-2GD3 cards
one Asus GT610-1G Silent LowProfile
2x4G GSkill ram, DDR3-1600

I run 1 touchscreen from the onboard graphics**, 3 from each GT640, and 1 from the GT610. this leaves me with 4 spare ports (1 mobo, 1 on each 640, 1 on 610) in case I want to put monitors in the kitchen, bathroom, ceiling, etc


** the reason I do this is because the GT640 cards don't support UEFI boot, but the onboard does. I rarely need to go into BIOS, but if I do I use the touchscreen. once in Win8.1 everything works as it should
 
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