Help buying PC and Video card to support 4 Displays

[Stevul]

Greetings all

I am about to by a PC for Trading (not gaming) and would like to know the best graphics card setup to use to support 4 displays. Have read that the best and cheaper way to do this is to have 2 x Dual-Display graphics cards not 1 x Quad-display card. Have also read that 2 displays can be run from one graphics card and the other two can be run from the on-board Intel graphics. So then found what I thought was a suitable PC, HP Pavilion 500-450na with Nvidia GT705, but the HP spec said that on board graphics cannot be used if a graphics card is in place.

My question is: Do I need to buy a PC with only on board graphics (and thus 2 video ports) first and then add a second card later?

I do not need a super fast PC so was thinking:
i3 or i5 processor
8GB Ram
1TB drive
1 or 2 graphics cards


Thanks
Steve

 

[The Darkeye]

Hello, what is budget on this?

William

 

[Hawkshot]

most highend graphics cards with 2 ports override the built in graphics on motherboards, with multipile displays you will want some like an i5-2400 or anything faster than that, an optimal CPU for multitasking like that would be an AMD setup due to high amount of cores I would really recommended going for something like the Fx-6300 it has 6 cores is very good at multitasking and a good single clock speed. as far as GPU's go you can look at things like the AMD Radeon™ HD 6950 Graphics it has 2 HDMI slots per card maybe get 2 of those

 

[Stevul]

Hello, what is budget on this?

William

Hi William

I was looking at spending £500 total on PC plus graphics cards here in London, UK. I have seen similar systems on US websites for $600. Already have the monitors.

Thanks,
Steve

 

[The Darkeye]

Hello, what is budget on this?

William

Hi William

I was looking at spending £500 total on PC plus graphics cards here in London, UK. I have seen similar systems on US websites for $600. Already have the monitors.

Thanks,
Steve

Ok, like mentioned above here a AMD will do just fine. A FX6300 will be fine.
RAM is your own choice, i have corsair RAM but that does not matter for you.
1TB drive will also be mroe then enough, DONT forget the psu by the way 😛
The Quadra NVS 420 is a Nvidia card that is pretty cheap, but specially made for 4 display business things.
Check that out and you might be fine. Goodluck!

William

 

[charmer]

here is a nice cheap build to serve your needs.
The GPU is optimized to run 4 displays

PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant

CPU: AMD FX-6300 3.5GHz 6-Core Processor (£78.69 @ Amazon UK)
Motherboard: Gigabyte GA-78LMT-USB3 Micro ATX AM3+ Motherboard (£39.84 @ Aria PC)
Memory: Crucial 8GB (1 x 8GB) DDR3-1600 Memory (£30.44 @ Ebuyer)
Storage: Seagate Barracuda 1TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive (£35.98 @ CCL Computers)
Video Card: EVGA GeForce GTX 950 2GB Superclocked Video Card (£125.72 @ More Computers)
Case: Thermaltake Versa H25 ATX Mid Tower Case (£26.57 @ CCL Computers)
Power Supply: SeaSonic ECO 430W 80+ Bronze Certified Fully-Modular ATX Power Supply (£29.99 @ Scan.co.uk)
Total: £367.23
Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available
Generated by PCPartPicker 2015-10-14 11:45 BST+0100

Fo you need more components? Mouse, OS etc?

 

[Hawkshot]

I would say go for the FX-6300 CPU along with the PNY Technologies nVIDIA Quadro NVS 420 Graphics Card - 512MB PCI-Express x16 DVI-D currently £89 on Amazon seriously get it now its on a massive sale!