Need 6 monitor support....how??

[daveybrat]

I need to build a system for a client with 6 monitor support. The only way i think will work is to buy an MSI P35 Extreme motherboard w/crossfire support and use 2 ATI radeon cards in non-crossfire to get 4 monitors and then add a dual-head PCI video card for the other 2.

Will this work and is there a better solution?

 

[knght990]

There are freeware/shareware made for flightsim for multiple monitor setups.

We used on to setup a 6 panel flightsim for ERAU's maintence training program and we only wanted 2 gpus to keep the cost low and at the time that variant of flightsim couldnt do hardware accell on the secondary outputs from gpus.

I have the software on some memory stick somewhere, if i find it ill let you know otherwise just google flightsim setups with 6 monitors and find their software on the web.

When we installed it, the desktop extended to fit the defined screen dimensions without streching. I think this might serve your purpose unless someone has a better solution.

 

[tuteja1986]

http://www.tomshardware.com/re...0g-chipset,1785-6.html


3x of these should do the trick http://www.newegg.com/Product/...x?Item=N82E16814102728

As long as you guys aren't play a game or anything. Then this will be good setup.

 

[Zap]

Matrox makes cards (yes they still do ) that output 4 monitors. Then, just add a random second card.

 

[Chosonman]

My head hurts just thinking about looking at 6 monitors at once.

 

[tuteja1986]

http://www.newegg.com/Product/...x?Item=N82E16813136044 3x PCIE cheap amd motherboard

 

[ther00kie16]

Matrox is too expensive. If you don't mind having one analog, then go with integrated + 2 video cards. You'll have to use PCI or PCIe x1 for one of the cards unless you decide to spring for a $250+ 780a motherboard. But at $250, it's probably better to get a MB with 3 PCIe x16 slots.
DFI 790fX for a mere $140 for AMD (slots are even triple spaced for the largest video cards)
$190ish after rebate for an Intel board with 3 PCIe x16 slots.

 

[betasub]

There are some options out there with >2 DVI per card (not that I'd recommend them) e.g.
HD 2600XT X2 with 4 DVI output
HD 3870XT X2 with 3 DVI output
- but these are double-width cards, and 3x single-width cards (with 2 DVI output each) seems a simpler solution.

 

[ajaidevsingh]

Matrox they just sent out new cards $600 only....

 

[taltamir]

Originally posted by: tuteja1986
http://www.newegg.com/Product/...x?Item=N82E16813136044 3x PCIE cheap amd motherboard

this looks nice... 130$

put in 3 AMD video cards, doesn't AMD support extra monitors with crossfireX? you wouldn't need extra drivers then.

 

[DerekWilson]

matrox has a triplehead2go for a couple hundred bux ... but last time i checked you could only use one per computer ... and they are resolution limited.

if your resolution requirements aren't that high per LCD panel, you could have two graphics cards and one triplehead2go and get 6 displays.

 

[aka1nas]

You didn't specify what you're going to do with it. Is this for a 3d application that you will span or do you just need Windows spanned across 6 displays? For the former, CrossfireX might handle it. The latter requirement isn't a big deal, just get 3 dual-dvi capable cards and a board with 3x PCI-E x16 slots.