6 monitors use display port hub or 2 GPUs

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DBell02

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I am finishing up my build for a daytrading computer. I am trying to find the best solution for six monitor display (not one large screen), I was recommended to use the EVGA display port hub.

http://www.evga.com/Products/Product.aspx?pn=200-DP-1301-L1

Then I read this: The Display Port Hub cannot grant additional monitors per card. A GTX 780 Ti, for example, can run a maximum of 4 monitors. With the Hub, you can still only run up to 4 monitors, not 6. The Hub is simply an easier way to port out 3 monitors on a single hub, rather than try to use multiple cable types from the card.

I would like some expert advice. The platform requires 512mb per screen they also mentioned accelerated calculations. Would two GPUs work better or would the EVGA hub be the best solution?
Thank you for you time.
 
Solution
well, you don't need as many cards as I have 😛 but yeah, a GT640-2G will be fine. I personally like the Asus one since it has 2 DVI, 1 HDMI, and 1 VGA, so there's no DisplayPort converters ever needed - they're just basic common monitor interfaces (and HDMI converts to DVI with just a cable)

you could do the GTX660s if you want as well.

oops - the i7-4xxx won't work with a Z77 board. you could use an i7-3xxx processor with it, or use a Z87 Extreme3 board if you want i7-4xxx processor. here's a sampling of ASRock boards for an i7-4770K that let you run dual graphics cards as 8x/8x

Click here, it's a long link
DBell02,

Did you ever receive the vmoptions code to work with multicores? I contacted TOS and was told "Each instance of thinkorswim runs on a single core, so if you want to run multiple cores you will want to run multiple instances. The VM options will not be the way going forward."