960 GTX for productivity? Max monitors it supports?

TidalWaveOne

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This is for PRODUCTIVITY, not gaming.

I have this card ON ORDER for $204.99 from Amazon:
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00SD9KZCI/ref=ox_sc_sfl_title_2?ie=UTF8&psc=1&smid=ATVPDKIKX0DER

What is the maximum number of monitors it supports? It has 6 ports but I think it can only support 4 monitors... is that correct?

Will this 2GB card be enough to run 4 monitors for productivity? I have these monitors:
2x 2560x1600
2x 1920x1080

Also one more monitor I will be running on a USB display adapter so I don't have to run deal video cards anymore (since I assume the 960 chip can only handle 4 monitors and I have 5): 1920x1200

I'm really looking forward to dumping my dual AMD 7850 cards because of constant driver problems. It's like AMD fixes one thing then breaks another thing. I hear NVIDIA has better drivers... I can't see how they can be much worse with all the issues I've had with AMD during the years I've had the dual 7850 system.

Thanks!
 
for half the price, you could get an Asus GT640-2GD3. each will drive 4 screens but i'm not sure if it can do your specific resolution mix (it can do all 4 as 1920x1080)

https://www.asus.com/Graphics_Cards/GT6402GD3/overview/

you could afford to run dual of those cards, or one card and run another monitor from onboard (if you have a non-FX series CPU). i personally run dual GT640 plus a GT610 plus onboard (i5) with zero driver issues.
 


Thanks but that doesn't look like it has all the ports I would want plus I want something more modern and power efficient... and I want to have only one card to simplify my setup and reduce power usage.