About to upgrade my system-concerns about on board graphics

[mrpistol056]

I am a day trader, and do not do any gaming stuff. My current system is over 5 years old, so I am looking to rebuild. I generally use Gigabyte motherboards. I stick with what I think I know. Currently I use a Gigabyte GA-P55-USB3 with an I5-660 processor. My video card is a Matrox M9140 quad video card. I have a M9148 I have never used. I plan to bring the M9140 forward to the new build. I run Esignal across 4 monitors.

So I am looking at new boards, and they all seem to be geared to gaming. I like the Gigabyte, socket 1150, with the Z97 chipsets. They use the newest generations of Intel processors, and can use more and faster ram. Considering an I7-4790K processor.

But these new boards have all this graphics stuff I don't fully understand. They have 2, 3 and 4 way AMD crossfire, and also the same for Nvidia SLI.

Will I be able to use the Matrox M9140 on these new motherboards? Or should I even use the M9140. Who makes a good quad video card. Many years ago, I tried something by Nvidia called a Quadro or something. It did not work well. Matrox cards have always been what I have used.

Thanks for any advice on this issue.

 

[TheUltimateNoob123]

Amd Crossfire and Nvidia SLI just mean that they support multiple graphics cards. This wont effect you and your graphics/viedo card should be fine in a new motherboard. If you were to buy a new graphics card i would suggest something with at least 4gb vram like the AMD radeon r9 380. More vram helps when you are using multiple monitors.

 

[Unolocogringo]

For what you are doing your current video cards are the best option.
Almost all newer video cards support 3 monitors. Some more,but then you have to find the correct adapters for your monitors.
Also I looked on the Matrox site but did not find drivers for windows 10 so you will need to stick with 7 or 8.1 for now.