Card to support 4 monitors

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Please enlighten us again? What is your goal? Pure trading (charting), or both trading and gaming?
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Seems the guy just doesn't want to buy trading cards... :D
 
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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 your current graphics. Once you plug in an external graphics card on the PCIe X16 slots, the onboard graphics (for 2 monitors that you said) will likely be disabled.

For the NVS 295 that you cited... "Out of stock". They are older models. Not in current production any more I think. So you won't find them in neweggs or shopping sites that sell brand new, current hardware. You should be able to find them plenty on Ebay. New or used.

Scat likes NVS series. I like EVGA 8400 GS. If you want just a no-frills solution. The EVGA 8400 GS 1024MB DDR3 is still a current model, could be bought brand new for about $30:

http://www.amazon.com/EVGA-GeForce-Express-Graphics-01G-P3-1302-LR/dp/B0049MPQA4

Simple. They work. For charting (simple graphics application), they are fine. The only thing is the video outputs (1 VGA, 1 DVI or choice of HDMI) - VGA is dated. If your monitor (newer model) doesn't take VGA signal then it won't work.
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I'm all for avoiding VGA if possible... but you can run both an HDMI and DVI connection at the same time on your cards?
 
Quote from Scataphagos:

Bummer! Hope he hasn't bought the monitors yet. Otherwise, he'll be looking for video cards with 2, HDMI ports... not common.
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He'll need an active displayport to HDMI adapter too, which are around $30.

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Never imagined a monitor being so cheap as to include a VGA but no DVI port.
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Not to mention no VESA mounts if he wants to put them on different stands.
 
Quote from Scataphagos:

I'm all for avoiding VGA if possible... but you can run both an HDMI and DVI connection at the same time on your cards?
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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
 
Quote from Dart:


Not to mention no VESA mounts if he wants to put them on different stands.
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Just a lot of head turning. :) Much harder for 1x6.

Very hard indeed since those are 27-inch monitors... 1x6 would be quite impractical.
 
There's a reason Nvidia Quadro NVS is the leader in "4+ monitor display" setups. They designed the cards with the EXPECTATION there would/likely be 4 monitors or more running from one workstation.... and running all day long (avoiding fans where possible).... been selling the NVS line for >10 yrs.
 
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