You are likely right though about getting a modern system and buying an video card with nothing but legacy ports. It will likely get the hand-me-down mobo/CPU from the home system after upgrading.

Think it's two onboard ports and something like an Radeon x1150 via Surroundview. Work system is four 1080p 22 & 24 inch screens, at least one has HDMI and all have DVI - don't think any have Displayport. Currently driven by a Radeon 6570 and a cheapie USB-to-HDMI for the last screen, as the onboard video flaked out. The other two screens are a 1920x1200 BenQ G2400W(DVI/HDMI/VGA) and a 1080p Dell 2210Hc (DVI/VGA) - this system probably won't need to drive 4 screens, but at some point when one screen dies I'll get a 4K to replace the first one that does. Right now the home system (3 screens, first one to be upgraded) has a 1440p 27' Korean Shimian with dual-link DVI only. This multimonitor site recommended it for four screens and the amazon questions say it supports four: Just keep in mind that you can only do 3x displays per Intel GPUs.

Should work to drive anything you want unless you're trying to drive multiple 4K monitors off a single hub. Plugging a MST hub into the onboard video is probably your best bet if you want cheap or stuck on a laptop. There's also the whole Displayport MST thing if you're short on DP ports, but everybody and their dog seems to forget they exist. Please provide exact model numbers for all the monitors you want to drive, if at all possible.ĭVI needs to die in a fire (it's finally, finally being removed from flagship consumer cards and was mercy killed on pro cards years ago.), plus I'd strongly advise against HDMI for PC monitor use due to fun like the color bugs: What are the interfaces that you need for these four monitors? Anything even vaguely modern and cost more than the absolute cheapest thing you can find should have a DP input on it. It would have an extra TMDS chip on it, but I doubt it. I'll bet money on that card not being able to drive both DVI-D ports and the HDMI port all at the same time. I'm curious because if this can support 4 screens without any Displayport connectors does it have more than two TMDS drivers? I'm not opposed to the FirePro card but if I'm talking another $150 for the video card I have to consider an Intel solution that will give me 2/3 monitor support with the onboard video. Since you're already on AMD, one of the entry-level AMD FirePro workstation cards is actually what you're looking for.Īnd a quality cable if you don't feel like futzing around with the cheap stuff: You should really be using DisplayPort for everything at this point anyways. Keep in mind that all modern GPU chipsets only have two TMDS drivers (used by DVI and HDMI) and your dual-link DVI monitor will use both of them, so you'll need active adapters for anything that needs HDMI and/or DVI past that.

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