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    QUAD Monitors Support- Suggestions?

    Anyone have any experience with these yet?

    I see two options. I need to power at Least 3x Dell 22" Monitors at max resolution.

    VisionTek Radeon X1650XT QUAD - graphics adapter - 2 GPUs - Radeon X1650 XT
    Mfg. Part: 900130
    $409 on tigerdirect.com

    and

    FireMV 2400 is the other option

    Looks like it takes about $400 to play.

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    Re: QUAD Monitors Support- Suggestions?

    Cant you just get two separate graphics card or is there a reason it needs to be on one board.???

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    Re: QUAD Monitors Support- Suggestions?

    Any SLI/Crossfire motherboard and 2 graphics cards running in non-sli/crossfire mode, will work fine. Get the same cards to help with compatability.

    I've got a X1950XT and a HD2400Pro running on an nvidia based SLI board with no problems. The money you'll save on not getting a specialist graphics card will be more than the cost of a cheap mobo with 2 PEG slots.

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    Re: QUAD Monitors Support- Suggestions?

    Quote Originally Posted by brianz999 View Post
    Anyone have any experience with these yet?

    I see two options. I need to power at Least 3x Dell 22" Monitors at max resolution.

    VisionTek Radeon X1650XT QUAD - graphics adapter - 2 GPUs - Radeon X1650 XT
    Mfg. Part: 900130
    $409 on tigerdirect.com

    and

    FireMV 2400 is the other option

    Looks like it takes about $400 to play.
    What are you looking to do with the 3 dell monitors.

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    Re: QUAD Monitors Support- Suggestions?

    Quote Originally Posted by jimbouk View Post
    Any SLI/Crossfire motherboard and 2 graphics cards running in non-sli/crossfire mode, will work fine. Get the same cards to help with compatability.

    I've got a X1950XT and a HD2400Pro running on an nvidia based SLI board with no problems. The money you'll save on not getting a specialist graphics card will be more than the cost of a cheap mobo with 2 PEG slots.
    Hi jimbouk do you notice any slow down in drawing across the 4 screens.

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    Re: QUAD Monitors Support- Suggestions?

    It's only 2 screens, but 2D stuff is fine. I can zoom windows between the screens with no noticable slowdown.

    The 2400 didn't like running Counter-Strike:Source and max settings when I had it in windowed mode and moved it across accidentally, but unless you're gaming then something like that would be fine.

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    Re: QUAD Monitors Support- Suggestions?

    If your just needing 2D outputs, there are some PCI-E 1x ATI x300's available that'll do the job.

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    Re: QUAD Monitors Support- Suggestions?

    Quote Originally Posted by javalord View Post
    If your just needing 2D outputs, there are some PCI-E 1x ATI x300's available that'll do the job.
    Do they have 2x DVI outputs also what sort of speed do you get across pcie 1x.

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    Re: QUAD Monitors Support- Suggestions?

    PCI-E x1 cards were a good idea but the price was just stupid for what you got. Be hard to find a supplier for them these days. For 2D the bandwidth will be fine, but you're as well sticking with a mainstream solution for cost as much as anything.

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    Re: QUAD Monitors Support- Suggestions?

    Theres tonnes of low to mid range fire gl and quadro cards going cheap on ebay, most of which will run dual dvi, and if you have a motherboard with 2 pci-e slots then you should easily be able to run up to 4 monitors.

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