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Need a Recomendation for A Graphics card to support 4 Monitors

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johnrmclean

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I have an HP ENVY 700 210
Windows 8 64 bit
Intel i7-4770
12 GB DDR3
256 Solid State drive
300W uATX Reg PSU power source
Currently I'm running 3 screens but need to run 4. I need a recommendation on a reasonably priced graphics board that will fit this machine and run 4 monitors. I use this computer for following charts and trading. Please review and advise. :thumbsup:
 
300W PSU is pretty skinny for adding a graphics card to a system, even a low-power one, and even without using it for gaming.

Given that,

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...-502-_-Product

750 Ti has very low power draw, and this particular one has four outputs that advertises being able to put all four displays on one.

There's a strong possibility that you may have to upgrade your power supply with any discrete graphics card you add, but the 750 Ti has the lowest chance of needing to do that.
 
No problem upgrading the power source. My main concern is that it fits the HP motherboard and does in fact support 4 monitors.
I upgraded the machine based on the HP's direct rep's recommendation to run 4 monitors then found it would only support 3 and then went to Microocenter where an incompetent sales rep also sold me a board that would only run 3 monitors so I want to make sure what I buy can do the job before I make the order.

Mand said:
300W PSU is pretty skinny for adding a graphics card to a system, even a low-power one, and even without using it for gaming.

Given that,

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...-502-_-Product

750 Ti has very low power draw, and this particular one has four outputs that advertises being able to put all four displays on one.

There's a strong possibility that you may have to upgrade your power supply with any discrete graphics card you add, but the 750 Ti has the lowest chance of needing to do that.
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Well, the one I linked specifically says it supports up to 4 displays on a single card, so that should work.
 
Wait, that motherboard has integrated graphics, and I think has a PCIe expansion slot for a video card.

Can you enable the on-board integrated graphics, while also enabling the separate/discrete video card inserted in the slot?

On two different ASUS motherboards I've had, I could accomplish this to enable dual-video cards, which should support four (or more) displays, by connecting 2 displays to the integrated motherboard video (HDMI or DVI, and VGA), and 2 displays to the discrete video card.

Edit: the setting is in the BIOS on my ASUS motherboards, so it may be similar for your HP motherboard, where you press ESC and then F10 to enter the BIOS settings right after bootup but before windows launches.
 
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If you can use both iGPU and discrete GPU at the same time, I would just use a cheap card like this one for your fourth monitor:

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...38&ignorebbr=1

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