one, two, three, or six monitors?

[Guest]

With the arrival of all these new monitors such as 4k 2k and G-sync the prices of monitors are reducing by the day. Currently I have a 780ti capable of anything i can think of. for £500 to £600 i can choose between either a cheap 4K monitor, a decent quality 2K monitor, two decent 144hz monitors, three mid range 60hz 1080p monitors or finally six low end 1080p displays personally im thinking the six monitor would be best.

i currently own a single 1080p 60hz monitor perfect for a six monitor setup will be using for mainly web browsing school work and occasional gaming obviously would be at most running a triple monitor gaming setup but would love the extra three monitors for having background programs on eg. skype, ts chrome ect

would love a second opinion ty

 

[Wolfshadw]

Not sure you can do six monitors with a single NVidia card. I've only seen the 1 over 3 configuration (four monitors).

-Wolf sends

 

[RevolutionHD]

I would go with the 3 monitor setup. Like Wolfshadw said, a single craphics card cant really handle THAT much monitors. And six monitors is quite a lot. U can get the eyefinity-experience with 3 monitors too.

 

[bryonhowley]

Wolfshadw is correct you could at most get 4 monitors running. I have a GTX 670 which should be able according to Nvidia do a Surround setup of 3+1 but after a year I have still never got them to do that. No matter how I connect my three Asus 27" monitors for Surround as soon as the 4th is added the drivers disable the Surround. Had I known this at the time I would have gone AMD/ATI. On top of that for what ever reason when you do setup a Surround HDMI audio gets disabled so even if I could get the 4th monitor to work for my 50" plasma I could not send the HDMI audio out to my receiver anyway. Nvidia has done a very poor job with Surround and I do not think the problems lie all in the drivers but the hardware and that is why they have made no attempt to fix any of it.

I can run 4 monitors in extended mode but that is it. And if I have the Plasma connected when I try to setup a Surround setup the drivers will pick 2 of my Asus 27" monitors and the Plasma instead of all three of the 27" monitors which happen to be the same exact models and it will do that every time. With AMD/ATI I can choose what monitors are part of the Eyefinity but Nvidia does not allow this as the drivers choose for you.

 

[RevolutionHD]

That is the sound of an expert (bryonhowley)

 

[mace200200]

With a 780ti I'd hope you'd be doing a bit more than "occasional" gaming and getting some use out of that card. If your looking at three monitors for surround gaming I kind of like having a single large 1440p monitor or one of the the extra wide screen ones. WHQL I believe they're called? Then you can have a big monitor for games and have your smaller second one for GPU usage graphs, movies, whatever. It's also cheaper than buying three monitors and uses less desk space (which may or may not be a problem).

 

[Guest]

ive checked with multiple "experts" six monitors is easily doable display port can handle 3 monitors on a single output and ive got the maximus vi impact capable of outputting via gpu and onboard at the same time so even if i could only run four monitors from the gpu i could run two fro the motherboard outputs. my pc can easyily handle any config the only thing holding my back is budget like i said earlier £500 to £600

 

[mace200200]

Its not the hardware holding back the number of monitors, it's the software. I suppose there may be third party software but I wouldn't have any idea.