Please help, I Need a minimum of 6 monitors connected to my desktop, but how?

[nagerjames801]

Hi fellow community members,

For my day job, I do a lot of research and I need a minimum of 6 HDMI monitors connected to my desktop. Currently, my 1050TI only has 3 outports which I am using. Can anyone please help? All of my monitors have HDMI, however, they don't all have display port or DVI.

will greatly appreciate you.

Thanks!

 

[Supahos]

https://www.matrox.com/graphics/en/products/graphics_cards/c-series/c680/

 

[nagerjames801]

this has to be the most awesome forum for help EVERRR. to be able to ask a question and receive the solution in under a minute?? well on my way to ordering the matrox already thank you #GRANDMASTER! AND TOMS HARDWARE!

 

[Supahos]

Glad to help. The Google fu was strong on that one

 

[bignastyid]

While the matrox card will work it also costs $600 plus the price of adapters. If your motherboard has a 2nd 16x pci-e slot a 2nd video card capable of support 3 more monitors will likely be much cheaper. It'd cost ~$150 for a GTX 1050 and a couple of HDMI adapters.

 

[nagerjames801]

https://www.matrox.com/graphics/en/products/graphics_cards/c-series/c680/

ALAS, another question has risen if you' be so kind. Matrox sells a card that supports dual monitors for $169. I was wondering, If I kept my 1050TI installed, could I just add the Millenium G550 PCI-e 1x (Part Number: G55-MDDE32LPDF) and I could Have 6 displays?
and is the Matrox brand supported on pos cars

referring to this product.
http://shopmatrox.com/usa/products/datasheet.asp?ID=816

 

[Supahos]

As mentioned above the cheapest route would be to add something like a 1050 but I didn't know anything about your power supply or rest of PC and since it was for work most people want the most elegant/sure fire option even if it's more. I wouldn't buy the matox card and fight driver issues with your 1050ti. I'd only consider either the 6 port card, or doing what BND suggested above.

 

[nagerjames801]

While the matrox card will work it also costs $600 plus the price of adapters. If your motherboard has a 2nd 16x pci-e slot a 2nd video card capable of support 3 more monitors will likely be much cheaper. It'd cost ~$150 for a GTX 1050 and a couple of HDMI adapters.

i was totally going to ask about the cheapest option since just viewing a few extra monitors should not have to put me in the price level of RTX 2070 (Matrox = $600) smh

Prolem is, I have a stupid Dell Inspiron 3847 I've started using for now to save money, but i've already upgraded power to EVGA 600W, RAM to 24GB, Samsung EVO 512 B NVM.e... so all that money spent i would really really like to save some on this card.

BTW , I only have 1 PCI-e 1x port that is barely accessible due to the card taking up some room. so no pci-e 16x available, only 1

 

[nagerjames801]

Is there some kind of adapter that would change PCI-e 1x to a 16x...?
I"m trying to think of any solution here so sorry if anything sounds stupid.
so, I'm still within the return time of my 105ti ... what if I returned the 1050ti, and found some 2 cards that I could fit together into my pc?

 

[Glenwing]

Any modern AMD graphics card will support 6 monitors with a DisplayPort MST hub, you don't need any specialized graphics card or other equipment. That or adding a second 1050/Ti would be your best option.