4 1920x1080 DVI-D Displays

[pattaway]

I need to run 4 40" 1920x1080 displays with DVI-D input. The PC I wnat to use do to its compact size only has one PCIx16 slot and has 2 PCIx1 slots. WHt's the best way I can achieve this setup running streaming video on all 4 monitors.

 

[sparkman]

I need to run 4 40" 1920x1080 displays with DVI-D input. The PC I wnat to use do to its compact size only has one PCIx16 slot and has 2 PCIx1 slots. WHt's the best way I can achieve this setup running streaming video on all 4 monitors.

I would just get an ATI 5970 and get adapters for all of your DVI-D cables, run those four monitors in eyefinity and basically you should be good to go.

 

[vvhocare5]

Theres more to this than that, right? There are professional systems that there is no upperlimit on and there is the do it yourself stuff - which is what this seems like?

Are we displaying the same image on all 4 monitors or different images on all 4? Full screen displays or windowed? OS?

Whats the goal? Use this compact box or 4 displays - define what the objective and we can work towards it.

Take a look at this site for a isting of 4 port video cards - http://www.multiplemonitors.org/Pages%20-%20Hardware/Hardware%20-%20Multi%20head%20Video%20cards.html

Good luck

 

[pattaway]

It will be 4 monitors with different images in full screen display. In the past I have used a Jupiter multidisplay unit. This is a little more low budjet. The compact size of the pc is because it will be mounted behind the monitors that it is controlling. It does have to be 4 monitors.

 

[pattaway]

On the website the specifications for that card says this:

ATI Eyefinity multi-display technology2,3
Three independent display controllers
Drive three displays simultaneously with independent resolutions, refresh rates, color controls, and video overlays

Will it run four monitors? It looks like only 3.

 

[Kari]

well you could use one of these, once they get them to stores...
http://www.techpowerup.com/117823/PowerColor_Makes_HD_5770_Eyefinity_5_Graphics_Card_Official.html
though you'll need a bunch of (active?) DP-to-DVI adapters.

 

[sparkman]

On the website the specifications for that card says this:

ATI Eyefinity multi-display technology2,3
Three independent display controllers
Drive three displays simultaneously with independent resolutions, refresh rates, color controls, and video overlays

Will it run four monitors? It looks like only 3.

I thought it could run six, but I must have been mistaken. It must have been something else I was thinking of, but I'm not completely sure what.

 

[sparkman]

Do you plan to game on these four monitors, do website design, photo or video editing, or just plan office work? Or all of these tasks at once?

 

[pattaway]

I'm going to stream live video from an IP video surveillance system to them.

 

[Kari]

I thought it could run six, but I must have been mistaken. It must have been something else I was thinking of, but I'm not completely sure what.

that would be the eyefinity6 edition with 6 miniDP outputs, afaik it hasn't been released yet...