4 Monitors or more

You can also get USB to DVI adapters. They cost ~75$ each they are no good for gaming but for general use they work great just plug in and go. They are also portable and make running 3+ monitors off a laptop possible. You can use up to 8 of them they say (never tried myself) I run two monitors off a card and two more off the Uvplus adapters.

http://www.evga.com/uvplus/

 

These guys have a good artical on PCI vs PCIe which I found very helpful in understanding the differences. http://emcworkstations.com/faqs.asp#PCIx

"most" of the new MBs support PCIe of differnet types, x1-x4-x8-x16. Actually, some of the newer boards do not even include a PCI slot.

Also, a single 4 display PCIe x16 card would be better than two 2 display cards. And for trading - you do not need lots of memory on the cards. ATIs 2450 is what I am using in EMC trading workstation.

Good luck.

 

I know of no conceivable reason why that would be true.... other than a quad could uses a few watts less than 2 duals. Besides, quads are MUCH more expensive than 2, dualheads.

 

Craziest new mobo I saw had 6, PCIEx16 slots and no others.

 

Expansion Slots
PCI Express x16 4
PCI Slots 2

That's what I have on my Asus P5K64WS.




Today Asus markets a "supercomputer" mobo with specs:
Expansion Slots
PCI Express 2.0 x16 - 3 x PCIe 2.0 x16 (@ x16 or x8)
3 x PCIe 2.0 x16 (@ x8)
1 x PCIe 2.0 x16 (@ x16)
*4 x PCIe 2.0 x16 or 7 x PCIe 2.0 ( 6x8, 1x16)

It has 7 slots total.

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813131390

 

just to throw this out there. im running a 5 year old emachines with a two old nvidia cards pushing 4 17 inch monitors old PCI, I run 10 charts and 2 to 4 DOMs the cards are FX 5500 and FX 5200, I don't experience any lag...

TT

 

5 yr old EMachine?? That's real low end isn't it?

 

2.8 P4 1gig ram on XP no lag running OEC, I just keep it clean and free of crap that comes from the internet. No unnecessary programs running in background.. not even virus protection. I prolly run faster then a vista machine dual core.. LOL

 

It's the bottom. I'm impressed it's running. But when you think of it, most pc brands make none of the components - they're nothing more then A+B=C and they make their money on the plus sign in that equation. They don't even write the BIOS most of the time (Dell may be an exception but they probably modify someone else's).