Can I plug/run 5 monitors on a single GTX 970?

[ClownWalker]

Hello people,

Right now, my setup is composed of two 1080p native monitors plugged via DVI on my gpu, which is a gtx 970. I'm planning on buying a third 24 inch to combine with the other two. I would then have to plug it via the display port on my gpu.

My question is, since I have two 19 inches 1440x900 monitors, would it be possible to plug these two with the other 3 on my one and only gtx 970?

Would it be too taxing for my 3.5Gb vram card?

I would mainly use a single 1080p when I game or the 3 all together but would use the other two 1440x900 for videos, text, or anything else.

Thank you!

EDIT : Damn it, seems like I have post this on the wrong category, don't know if I should delete this thread and post again in another sub or just wait for a mod to move this.

 

[nyterage]

sadly the 970 only supports up to 5 monitors simultaneously. would need a 2nd graphics card for the last one.

 

[ClownWalker]

sadly the 970 only supports up to 5 monitors simultaneously. would need a 2nd graphics card for the last one.

Well, if you really meant 5 and not 4 that is amazing since 5 is all I need. It may not have been clear but I have 3x1080p + 2x900p = 5 monitors.

My card has :
2xDVI
1xHDMI
1xDisplayport

 

[nyterage]

yep, definatly had a typo there, its 4 monitors max on the 970. sorry to get your hopes up.

 

[ClownWalker]

yep, definatly had a typo there, its 4 monitors max on the 970. sorry to get your hopes up.

Haha all good my man. I guess I would need a better card with more VRAM.

 

[nyterage]

not necessarily, the vram will only effect high resolution gaming performance, if you are only using one monitor to play games, you will notice no performance difference between 1 monitor and 4. if you were gaming on all 4 at once, thats a totally different story. you can also attempt to connect a monitor to your onboard graphics adaptor to see if that will display the 5th monitor. some systems will allow that as long as there is no driver conflicts.

 

[ClownWalker]

not necessarily, the vram will only effect high resolution gaming performance, if you are only using one monitor to play games, you will notice no performance difference between 1 monitor and 4. if you were gaming on all 4 at once, thats a totally different story. you can also attempt to connect a monitor to your onboard graphics adaptor to see if that will display the 5th monitor. some systems will allow that as long as there is no driver conflicts.

Alright, I'll try that once I have all of them. I once tried to plug both 900p monitors to my pc using VGA to DVI but it ended up duplicating the desktop instead of extending it since I could only plug one of my monitors in the DVI-I of my gpu and the other one on my motherboard.

 

[nyterage]

could have been an issue in windows display manager, should be able to configure that by right clicking your desktop and selecting screen resolution. i believe default it is set to duplicate but you can set it to extend manually.