Need a 6 monitor setup for an office

[nmderush]

Hi everyone, long time lurker here.

Concisely, I am in charge of a project at work where the owner of a company wants to set up a wall of one of the offices with 6 TVs, one each running either an application or something browser based to track shipment drivers and their deliveries.

I've spent the last couple hours researching, but haven't found a very good solution to run all 6 TVs from one PC. Am I just too burned out from this migraine? Is it as simple as buying two video cards with 3 HDMI outputs to run to these sets? Or do I have to go a more expensive route and start looking into DisplayPort setups?

tl/dr; trying to run an extended desktop with 6 TVs, preferably via HDMI - what video card(s) do I need?

 

[greens]

Any modern GPU can push 6 monitors without difficulty.
The real problem is finding your god damn mouse in an array like that, its just really hard to use the PC, but if it is just a "set it and forget it" it will work just fine. But 6 monitors on a work station would be problematic.

Again any modern GPU can do it without a problem. I think your cheapest bet would be an R9 380X with an MST Hub. The MST hub is kind of expensive, but turns one DP into 3 HDMI ports, and is a heck of a lot cheaper than a second GPU. Plus finding a GPU with 3 HDMI ports isn't going to be easy.

380x With: MST HUB + DVI to HDMI adapter + another DVI to HDMI adapter + the normal HDMI = 6 monitors on one GPU.

 

[nmderush]

Any modern GPU can push 6 monitors without difficulty.
The real problem is finding your god damn mouse in an array like that, its just really hard to use the PC, but if it is just a "set it and forget it" it will work just fine. But 6 monitors on a work station would be problematic.

Yeah, that won't be a problem - this is for display purposes only, going to be displaying 6 maps, one on each screen.

Again any modern GPU can do it without a problem. I think your cheapest bet would be an R9 380X with an MST Hub. The MST hub is kind of expensive, but turns one DP into 3 HDMI ports, and is a heck of a lot cheaper than a second GPU. Plus finding a GPU with 3 HDMI ports isn't going to be easy.

380x With: MST HUB + DVI to HDMI adapter + another DVI to HDMI adapter + the normal HDMI = 6 monitors on one GPU.

Interesting. I actually have a GTX660 on hand, looks like its almost the exact same output setup (2 DVI/HDMI/DP), so theoretically I'd just need the MST hub and the proper cables?

 

[greens]

Unfortunately a GTX 660 isn't something i'd consider modern, you're looking at a max output of 4 1080p monitors. It is actually quite dated, and at that time Nvidia was only just barely getting into multiple monitor support.

 

[nmderush]

Ah, I see. So the limitation is in the strength of the GPU being able to handle that many displays rather than the connections it has.

 

[greens]

Ah, I see. So the limitation is in the strength of the GPU being able to handle that many displays rather than the connections it has.

Correct!