5 monitors 2 970s sli

[doctorgiggles]

ok guys i have a question maybe someone can help i have 5 monitors and 2 Evga 970s. I would like to have them working in SLI and surround i know you can do it but when i look at the nvidia page for which monitors go where they have the new cards that have 4 display ports and 1 dvi. I have the older 970s that have 2 dvi 1 hdmi and 1 display port can anyone tell me where i would be able to plug what monitors in where to run sli and surround the monitors i have are
1 samsung 28inch 4k
2 dell 24 inch E2414H
2 dell 24 inch S2415H
any help would be great.

 

[i7Baby]

You need a mst hub - http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16815158403

 

[rhysiam]

You realise that your 4K monitor will have to run at 1080p resolution too? My understanding is that running surround on monitors with different resolutions will drop them all to the lowest resolution of your monitor group... that's 1080p in your case.

Good luck.

 

[doctorgiggles]

@rhysiam yeah i understand i can use it to play on the ps4...no problem...
@i7baby only 1 monitor has the display port the others have the dvi or hdmi on the monitors

 

[rhysiam]

@rhysiam yeah i understand i can use it to play on the ps4...no problem...
@i7baby only 1 monitor has the display port the others have the dvi or hdmi on the monitors

Good, just checking.

RE the MST hub, if you look at the description it explains that it works with passive adapters, so just grab yourself some standard DP -> HDMI/DVI [whatever your monitors work with] and you should be okay.

BUT - according to this (now fairly old) post Nvidia surround does not support Club3D MST hubs. The displays work with the card, but the option to enable surround is greyed out: http://www.wsgf.org/article/review-club-3d-mst-hub

I realise the above links to a StarTech hub, but the technology is the same. Perhaps Nvidia has updated their drivers to allow this now, but I'm not sure. You'll want to do some more reading on this before purchasing.

 

[rhysiam]

I've done a little more reading, it would work for sure if you could connect all displays to the same card, but unfortunately you've only got the 4 output versions.

However, this is worth trying. If you go to Nvidia's Surround configuration guide here: http://www.geforce.com/hardware/technology/surround/system-requirements

Spec it for GTX 970, 2-way SLI & portrait gaming...

Both option 6 and option 7 present 2 primary and 4 optional connections (max 5 displays though): but they only use a single DP, HDMI & DVI from each card. Your cards have those outputs, so it's definitely worth trying that.

 

[i7Baby]

@rhysiam yeah i understand i can use it to play on the ps4...no problem...
@i7baby only 1 monitor has the display port the others have the dvi or hdmi on the monitors

Then you need to get adapters.

 

[doctorgiggles]

I also added back my r290 so now i have the 970s in sli and a r290 on the 4x spot on pci express i have 4k and 2 24s on that one and my 3 monitors on the 970s