[Reaver]

Originally Posted by james_gsx »

I wish I had a third monitor... but two will do for now

Nice setup.

Looks a lot like mine. Even the choice of books.

[Mavrik00]

Im using Dell Precision 690, 2 vid cards, tons of memory, super-fast processor, 4 x 30" Dell HD/High-Res Monitors.

I am a well aware that this set-up rocks the house! hehe

[Trader_Eight]

Hey Mavrik, really nice setup you got there. I am in the process of getting a new station. Do you might share the specs of your setup? Did you run all 4 monitors in one machine? or two. What graphic cards are you using? In order to put 2 cards in one machine you need cross fire right?

Thanks in advance.

TE

[diablo272]

Originally Posted by Trader_Eight »

Hey Mavrik, really nice setup you got there. I am in the process of getting a new station. Do you might share the specs of your setup? Did you run all 4 monitors in one machine? or two. What graphic cards are you using? In order to put 2 cards in one machine you need cross fire right?

Thanks in advance.

TE

No, you can use more than one card in a machine without using Crossfire or SLI, but you can't use them both on one monitor without Crossfire or SLI. If you wanted to use 4 monitors, you could have 2 plugged into each card (if you were using 2 cards), but you should be able to run 4 monitors from one card unless you're doing some kind of 3D charting or something.

[Trader_Eight]

Originally Posted by diablo272 »

No, you can use more than one card in a machine without using Crossfire or SLI, but you can't use them both on one monitor without Crossfire or SLI. If you wanted to use 4 monitors, you could have 2 plugged into each card (if you were using 2 cards), but you should be able to run 4 monitors from one card unless you're doing some kind of 3D charting or something.

I didn't know that I can plug two cards into one machine. (Do I need a special type of motherboard and software?) Currently I am using a dual head AGP card, so I have to get 2 PCI cards to run 4 monitors? Any good cards you would recommend?

Thanks

[suriNotes]

Trading PC:
Dell 20" (6) monitors... Dell 3.4 GHz, XPP, 4 GB, nVidia nvs400,TS

Data Server:
Dell 22" (2) Monitors.. Dell 3.2 Ghz, XPP, 2 GB, SQL, ColdFusion

Laptop
SONY Vaio.. 2.6 GHz, 1GB...

Regards,
Suri

[Tams]

Originally Posted by Trader_Eight »

I didn't know that I can plug two cards into one machine. (Do I need a special type of motherboard and software?) Currently I am using a dual head AGP card, so I have to get 2 PCI cards to run 4 monitors? Any good cards you would recommend?
Thanks

check this out for ideas:
http://www.traderslaboratory.com/for...html#post63392

[Trader_Eight]

Thanks, after more research, seems like pci cards is the way to go. I can use 3 dual head pci cards for 6 monitors setup. Do you think that is a good choice?