Multiple monitor setup

[krazy_olie]

Hi request from someone for some specs to run a 4 monitor setup for video purposes.
Just wondering if the following setup will work/is sensible?

Gigabyte GA-P55A-UD4 P55 Socket 1156 8 Channel Audio ATX Motherboard

and 2 * Inno3D 9500GT 512MB DDR2 DVI VGA HDMI Out PCI-E Graphics Card

and a quad core i5 processor to stick in the mobo. (quad core was requested)

Not needed for any kind of gaming, supposedly some sort of cctv setup but I don't have more details than that unfortunately.

Comments and suggestions most welcome!
Thanks, Olie

[krazy_olie]

bump?

[scaryjim]

That *would* work, but other options may be better: you could go with something AMD and a 760G / 880G chipset as long as one monitor could use VGA, or you could get an eyefinity 5 card and run all 4 monitors off one card if the monitors support DisplayPort.

When you say "video purposes", what kind of purposes?* If you're editing / transcoding then you may be able to offload some of the computational duties onto the GPUs: if not going for a Phenom II X6 would probably give you better performance as video manipulation and transcoding tend to be heavily multithreaded.

EDIT: I notice your OP says probably CCTV but you're not sure: have you got any more details to give us yet?

[CAT-THE-FIFTH]

This might be useful to read:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ATI_Hybrid_Graphics

[krazy_olie]

Thanks, looks like need to do a little bit more research.

I think I might be restricted to intel but amd does look like it could be a better solution with the hybrid crossfire, and the eyefinity looks promising too!

Unfortunately I don't really know what these machines are supposed to do, will see if I can get some more info.