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Thread ID: 109029	2010-04-21 04:52:00	PC with multiple screens	utopian201 (6245)	Press F1

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878804	2010-04-21 04:52:00	Hi How do computers display 10+ screens? (eg for stock market uses etc). I know eyefinity allows up to 6, but they can't be crossfired for 12. And there are matrox cards which allow up to 16, but is that the only way, to get a specialised, expensive card? Price is no object, aiming for about 10-12 screens, with option to expand to more screens. Well, ok, the budget is about 10k excluding screens. Not worried about the screens for now... (about 20-30k allocated for screens alone). Or are there specialised industrial applications for this that are outside the realm of normal pcs?)	utopian201 (6245)
878805	2010-04-21 05:01:00	Multiple graphics cards with multiple outputs. And for repeating the same information across multiple screens you can easily get VGA/DVI/HDMI multiplexers. Matrox and perhaps a couple of other places also offer Remote Graphics Units which can allow multiple displays per unit as well.	inphinity (7274)
878806	2010-04-21 21:55:00	Matrox cards are a good place to start, I read they now have 8 outputs per card & multiple cards can be used. Paul at Datastor helped me with a project for 10 monitors in a Real Estate office in the Waikato a few years ago before they had the 8 output cards. Talk to him if he's still there.	V8s_for_me (15738)
878807	2010-04-22 09:35:00	I know eyefinity allows up to 6, but they can't be crossfired for 12. Strictly speaking, you are right, eyefinity does not allow crossfire for 12 screens, however, Windows allows for that many screens, so if you were to get 2 (or even 3) 5870 Eyefinity 6 display cards, you will definitely be able to run 12 (or more) screens, you just won't be able to use all of them for eyefinity (which is really only for gaming). I'm only guessing, but I really can't see any reason why not, and it will probably work out cheaper than any Matrox solution.	Deimos (5715)
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