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Yes, I hear you. When I have 15 x 4k monitors, it would be mucho more excellent. :D

OMG... reading this thread is like a drama unfolding. So many pages into it and still no resolution. :) It seems you were going in circle for a while. Either looking at high-end game cards (require dual slot width for one card), or a dual card that has one VGA port. Well... no use to...

Sorry Dart, my comments were out of context. I was thinking only in general terms, wasn't thinking of with reference to that specific card. Since the manufacturer has such a specification, sure would go with them. Not sure why that is though.

Should work okay. That's a DMS-59 to 2 HDMI connector. In general: monitor resolutions don't matter. You can have a mix of varieties of monitor resolutions. The Windows Management software will let you specify what resolution you want on each monitor, and how you line them up or stack them.

You need to be careful with these cards thave have a D-sub output port. (D-sub is VGA). The one you linked gives you 3 ports: VGA, HDMI and DVI. But it doesn't mean you can drive 3 monitors with the card. Typically you choose 1 out of the two. And I think typically you choose between DVI...

Generally, for add-on cards no fan is better than having fans. Mechanical parts will eventually fail. They typically fail faster than electronic parts. But 2 to 3 years seems a bit overly pessimistic. If the card is engineered to work without a fan, you should be okay. There are...

Thanks Scat and dart for jumping in. Agassi: According to the motherboard make/model you provided, you have only 2 PCIe X16 slots. Lots of empty slots, yes. But as I said up-thread, you need to know what bus type those empty slots are. The motherboard vendors typically provide a mix of...

Just a lot of head turning. :) Much harder for 1x6. Very hard indeed since those are 27-inch monitors... 1x6 would be quite impractical.

For the 8400 GS, no. I haven't tried it because I use mostly VGAs on my monitors. Only a few DVI direct. The rest is to use DVI-VGA adapters. For the 8400 GS card, I think it is: either DVI + VGA or HDMI + VGA

Scat: Looks like his monitor has a HDMI and a D-sub in the back: http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/81HPiMFwlqL._AA1500_.jpg

Please enlighten us again? What is your goal? Pure trading (charting), or both trading and gaming?

No. You can't have 6 monitors that way. Remember your motherboard has only 2 PCIe X16 slots. You can only plug in 2 external cards for PCIe X16 bus. I suppose you can have 3 x PCI display cards (but PCI is the older bus type). Or have a mix of PCI and PCIe X16 cards. They may work okay if...

How did you go from 3 monitors to 14 monitors? :) What caused the thought change? :)

I second what Scat said. If you are buying extra graphics cards, you need to prepare to forgo using the onboard graphics. The Intel 4000 HD is the built-in graphics on your Asus motherboard. There is nonthing for you to tell the computer repainman to "remove". There is no extra card for...

Congrats! You have given yourself a Christmas present! :)

Well... I have to concede that this little challenge is not as easy to overcome than I anticipated. The DVD cables and sockets looked clean and solid. No disconnect. The reading head was cleaned, but didn't help the problem. DVD is still dead. The network boot is too complicated for me...

Thanks for the suggestion, nkhoi! I will keep that suggestion in my list. I will try the network boot first and see how that goes. I don't really have an XP machine around any more. The oldest is a Vista.

Thanks for the link, blah. They listed F25 being the lastest and current version for the BIOS. Which is what I have. No new firmware to download.

Looks like the generic cloning didn't work. Booting the laptop from the new SSD, error screen: Windows Boot Manager Windows failed to start. A recent hardware or software change might be the cause. To fix the problem: 1. Insert your Windows installation disk and restart your...

Excellent! Thank you. Let me see if the cloning works. If not, that's another thing to try.