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anyone know of a cheap 4 monitor display video card

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techguy911   06-02-2008 at 08:00:54 PM

Does not have to be fancy can be either pci or pci-e.

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soundefx   06-02-2008 at 08:30:09 PM
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I believe you can have two nvidia quattro cards installed and each one can be split into two. I also think that one of them can handle four monitors but I am not sure about that.
As far as 'cheap' goes, that is another problem as i don't think that they are that cheap.

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dtq   06-02-2008 at 08:38:16 PM
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Never tried more than two displays from PC's theoretically 2x 6600gt's (about £60 worth) would have 4x dvi ports, but no idea if drivers support showing four screens in such a setup.

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halcyon   06-02-2008 at 08:47:53 PM
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...and if you want to go even cheaper you could get 2xFX5200 PCI cards and run 4 displays that way. ...but you'd have no 3D capability worth mentioning.

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tkuhl87   06-02-2008 at 08:51:30 PM
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Well, you either want to get a motherboard that can handle 2 graphics cards and get 2 graphics cards. The cards have to be capable of driving 2 monitors each. My 2 X 7600GT's can although I have never tried it. Or you could try one of these USB video converter things...no clue how well they work though.
http://www.usbgear.com/USB-Video-Card.html

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Bronze Graphics badge jay2tall   06-02-2008 at 08:53:21 PM
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what mobo do you have? do you have agp or PCI-e. if you have PCI-e do you have 1 or 2 slots? a 4 output Video card is not cheap. You are best off getting 2 dual output video cards.

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justjc   06-02-2008 at 09:43:37 PM
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ATi Hydravision http://ati.amd.com/products/Hydravision/index.html basicly mean that if the graphics are from ATi, including integrated, you can use all the outlets you have.

If you're going for a one slot solution the Asus EAH 3870 X2 1GB is born with four DVI outputs allthough the $359.99 (newegg after mail in rebate) can't excactly be called cheap. matrox also have some cards that support four outputs, however they're all both more expensive and weaker than the card from Asus.

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sisley_111   06-02-2008 at 09:55:26 PM
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buy a 780G mobo with a HD3450, you could do Hydravision with that. With a small CPU, around 200$ for the kit (mobo, CPU, Ram and video card), assumng you have the case, power supply...

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motaku   06-02-2008 at 10:20:37 PM
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I think your looking for something like this http://www.newegg.com/Product/Prod [...] 6814133104 but i' m not sure

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