How can I manage to connect 5 monitors to one PC?
(Yes, really)
How can I manage to connect 5 monitors on one PC?
Up to 4, I can handle it with 2 video cards...
Is there any video card out there with 3 video outputs?
Is there any motherboard with more than 2 PCI Express slots?
I've seen pictures of setups with 6-12 monitors. How is this even possible?
Also, what kind of problems should I expect? (I've never had more than one video card in my PC yet, only one with 2 monitors).
Some of the Nvidia Quadro cards have 4 ports on them. Technically it's two special ports, that each get split into 2 DVI or VGA.
Motherboards that support 3-way SLI have three PCI-E slots. You don't have to run the cards in SLI mode. You can run them as three video cards.
Reference: SLI | GeForce
The rigs that I have seen with many monitors were all done in one of two ways:
- They crammed as many PCI(-E) video cards into a PC as possible.
- They have multiple machines powering the different displays. This one is pretty popular with the flight-sim guys. Three big monitors for the cockpit front windows, and then many smaller screens for the different flight instruments. Seems to work well.
Some graphics cards in the ATI Radeon HD 5000 series and higher support up to 6 monitors from a single graphics card. Conceivably, if you have room for quad-Crossfire, you could drive 24 displays from a single computer. These are consumer-level cards, too.