AMD 1100T - 8 monitors for trading - $2000 max

[Tom_Lee]

Hi All,

I am using intel i7-920 with 2 NVS-420 that support 8 monitors totally but I really don't like its performance. Finally, I decide to build a new system that still supports for 8 monitors. Here's my information from Newegg and Tigerdirect:


AMD x6-1100T $190
GIGABYTE GA-990FXA-UD3 $150
Memory corsair vengeance 16gb $100
(two) XFX HD-6950 2GB 256-bit $560 (one card supports 4 monitor)
Corsair 128Gb SSD $220
Seagate 1TB 7200 6gb/s $60
Asus Blu-ray burner $80
Corsair Graphite 600TM Black Case $160
Corsair 950w Power Supply $155
Cooler V8 Heatsink and Fan $46
(four) MiniDP to DVI adapter $100
Windows 7 Pro $140

Total $1961

I greatly appreciate for any comments and opinions.

 

[FinneousPJ]

For you too I would recommend a 6770. It has 1 HDMI, 1 DisplayPort and 2x DVI for 109,99 😛

 

[lsimon]

For you too I would recommend a 6770. It has 1 HDMI, 1 DisplayPort and 2x DVI for 109,99 😛

So if I was running 4 monitors off of this card would I run one off of each of the 4 ports with adaptors to the DVI (If all my monitors were DVI) or are some of the ports just duplicate of the others.

I see comments that certain types of card processors can drive up to 3 or 4 monitors but if I search for cards with those processors they don't always have 2 ports let alone more than 2. If this is the case does one use some sort of splitter and is it a given this will work?

Sorry if these questions seem so off the wall.

 

[FinneousPJ]

Actually you maybe right, I'm not 100% sure. I believe AMD cards can drive two HDMI/DVI lanes plus as many DisplayPorts as there are on the card. However there seem to be different configs like f.ex. the Sapphire FleX series...

 

[FinneousPJ]

I found a quote saying AMD GPUs support up to 6 display pipelines per GPU. Have a look at the AMD.com EyeFinity page.