I need to setup my computer so that It has 4 monitors on it. At the moment there are 2 monitors hooked up to 1 Nvidia GPU. I only have one AGP slot which is being occupied by the Nvidia card, but I do have PCI slots available. Should I just buy a PCI card to go with my current AGP card and hook the extra 2 monitors up to the new card? Is it that simple?
Also, does it matter which card I get? As long has it has 2 video-outs?
Thanks.
2006-12-04 03:30:31 · 4 answers · asked by kjac3585 1 in Computers & Internet ➔ Hardware ➔ Other - Hardware
Generally yes.
You would prefer to have similar/same GPUs on both your AGP and your PCI card. This isn't easy, since there aren't many PCI graphics cards to choose from. The highest I know of is NV34.
If you have the money, there are quad output cards out there, they aren't cheap though. One of their other advantages is that you can use the higher resolution DVI panels like the Dell 30", then you almost don't need other monitors.
You didn't mention whether you need different output on each monitor or not - I don't like video splitters because they reduce the pixel quality.
2006-12-04 06:53:19 · answer #1 · answered by Hansi 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The KVM will let you switch between them but I assume you want all four to be active at the same time. You need to get one video card that supports four monitors, or two video cards that can be linked together. Either way, looks like you may have to give up the existing card; to get two linked, I believe they both must be agp or pci, not a mix.
2006-12-04 13:20:17 · answer #2 · answered by BigRez 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Well, it not quite that simple, but yes, that's pretty much what you need to do. The card you get doesn't matter too much.
2006-12-04 11:48:36 · answer #3 · answered by theanswerman 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
kvm multi monitors
2006-12-04 11:39:30 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋