Anyone using Windows XP to output 4 monitors?
- Thread starter FunMan
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no, and with a matrox card you end up with 5 monitors
erie
You can have a better (not sure exactly what it is called) electrical receptical on the back of the tower put in if you want to be on the safe side.
erie
You can have a better (not sure exactly what it is called) electrical receptical on the back of the tower put in if you want to be on the safe side.
No. I run 6 monitors.... some guys here run 8. I think the XP maximum is 10.
If you want to run 4 monitors, have a proper mobo and proper video cards... Matrox is OK, but slower than Nvidia Quadro NVS.
Passmark scores for common, fanless, multi-monitor, multi-card video cards...
22, Matrox G450
159, Nvidia GeForce 8400 GS
205, Nvidia Quadro NVS 295
On one of my trading PCs, I have 5monitors hooked up.(1 agp-dual, 1 PCI-E dual, 1 PCI) nothing but trading......no updates. the other PC has all the junks and 2 monitors. haven't had a problem.
There weren't many mobos with both AGP and PCIE.
XP is already/still working perfectly. No reason to go through the hassle of changing. (I have W7 on a couple of other machines, but my trading stuff is still on XP. Besides, I don't see many/any benefit to running W7. It's said to be "more secure", but I don't have security issues with XP.)