I am going to put together a six monitor setup and think I will build the rig myself. Can I use 3 dual video cards with a motherboard that has 3 PCIe slots? Will this work with WinXP Pro? Any suggestions and input will be helpful.
What are you going to use to hold the 6 monitors? Whats size LCD? This is one my fev setups: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A3jpG3rv4zI&feature=related http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iulVvTHGEZg&feature=related and a16 monitos one: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pLKmsJTLPtM&feature=related
I plan to use 6 Samsung 19" screens since I will only be putting 4 charts per screen. I will mount them on a wall with vesa wall mounts instead of paying $500+ for a six monitor stand. It's not the cost of the stand that's the issue, I need them to stay secure since I'm going mobile with them. If I move to a fixed location I will get the stand or make one.
Chekc this http://www.matrox.com/graphics/en/products/graphics_cards/qid_series/ http://www.matrox.com/graphics/en/products/gxm/th2go/ http://www.matrox.com/graphics/en/products/graphics_cards/mms_series/g450x4mms/
I've determined buying 3 dual head cards are more economical than buying one quad and one dual. I looked for a tripple head card and didn't find one but it's still more than I want to spend if I have to buy 2 of them. http://www.studica.com/products/product_detail.cfm?productid=53655
I've already determined the set up I want like I said. Bigger monitors with tripple head or quad heads is more than I need to spend. I'd like some input from those who know on whether my set up will work.
Theoretically you can use 3 PCIe cards with dual output paralelly. I used 2 old Matrox Dualhead PCI cards with 4 monitors and it worked fine, so I think the 3 card setup will work too.
Thanks for the input. I found this thread that discusses it as well. So now I know it can work and I just need to pick the right components to build it. http://www.techsupportforum.com/hardware-support/building/232258-6-monitor-system-build.html
You can get 6 monitors to run an any of several mobos... whether they have 3, x16 slots or not. Suggest avoiding mobos with "onboard video", however. I've done a couple of 6'ers on the Dell T3400 using 2, x16 cards and 1, x1 card.