6 Monitors, 1 Computer

Big Edit TWO:

Okay fudge that whole idea with the evgas, I'm getting 3 graphics card and will not crossfire/sli them, and be done with it, thanks for the help everyone

It doesn't work that way. At least I'm pretty sure you just don't add resolutions together. It would still actually only be that resolution, it'd just be bigger.

As far as 6 monitors pushing that resolution, I'm not exactly sure what you would need. For gaming you probably would need pretty powerful cards to push all 6. For videos I'd say you probably get something like a switch I've seen them on newegg I think it was for multimonitor setups.

Sorry for not including this in the first post. Well I don't play games that much, sometimes when I get bored I'll play Counter Strike or WoW. I use Photoshop regularly, and I also burn movies. If I went ahead and bought 3 4890s or 3 GTX 285s, do I need to get the matrox stuff? Also if I did get that many graphics card I would probably need a bigger power supply, right? I was looking on newegg and they had dual head to go and triple head to go matroxs'. I guess for 6 monitors I would need two triple heads or three dual heads. Is that the only current way to get a 6 monitor set up on one PC?

Oh and I plan to gaming even less once I update.

You cannot run your video cards in crossfire with a dual card setup unless you are using a matrox product. You CAN use sli in dual monitor setup with nvidia cards with the 180 series of drivers. I used to run a 3 monitor setup with CRT's and only needed 2 video cards.

With a matrox triple head2go you would be plugging in three monitors into one head on your vid card. The way the matrox works is that it gives each monitor a standard resolution of like 1200 x 1080, then it combines them and forces your OS to see it as only 1 monitor. Thats why you are able to use sli on the 3 monitor setup.

The good news is that with 2 of the matrox products, you should be able to run 6 monitors off of just 2 video cards in SLI so long as you use nvidia. With dual monitor sli, your computer will only be seeing two GIANT monitors instead of 6. I would strongly suggest making sure that you are using at least a gtx 285 in each slot for that since your rez is going to be like...7200 x 1080....or 3600 x 1080 for each monitor cluster. The matrox 3head2go does not allow any res per monitor higher than 1200 x 1080 I believe...I'm at work though, so you might want to check that out for yourself.

Not to hijak this thread or anything..but i made a similar post yesterday. I'm running a 24 inch dell ultrasharp now and want to go with two other monitors. I was thinking of 2 20 inches to flank the 24...or should I go with 3 24's?

yeah...it would be 3840 x 1024 for every three monitors...so you would either be pushing that resolution per card w/o sli or you would be pushing 7680 x 1024 with sli since it combines the two giant monitors it see's into one resolution.

Are you gonna run 6 independent monitors or use them as one monitor? I don't understand the thread because you say you're not a hard core gamer, and more into photo editing then why the suggestions for high end 3D GPUs which will need huge PSU?