How to connect 6 monitors to a PC?

[buchman]

Hi,
I built an AMD PC and I have GTX 1070ti graphics card with only 4 outputs to 4 monitors, I want to connect 2-3 more monitors, what are the cheapest options do I have?
Thanks in advance.

[stj]

Re: How to connect 6 monitors to a PC?

a video booster/amplifier.
company's used to use them in conference rooms and large area's
i used to see them go for beer money at auction all the time.

[buchman]

Re: How to connect 6 monitors to a PC?

a video booster/amplifier.
company's used to use them in conference rooms and large area's
i used to see them go for beer money at auction all the time.

I forgot to mention that I need to see a different picture on all monitors.
Do you have a link with an example of the video amplifier?
I googled it and it seems that it's not what I am looking for.

[R_J]

Re: How to connect 6 monitors to a PC?

If you want a different picture on each (all) the monitors, you will need a second video card. I see no other way of doing it.

[diif]

Re: How to connect 6 monitors to a PC?

Add another graphics card.

[stj]

Re: How to connect 6 monitors to a PC?

does the 1070 really have 4 independant outputs?
i thought it only had 2 - not connectors but actual streams.

[buchman]

Re: How to connect 6 monitors to a PC?

Isn't there another option except adding a second graphics card? Maybe some kind of HUB or a splitter?
Some one told me that I have to install same graphics card that I currently have. In addition, I need to upgrade the power supply, do I? I have 750W right now

[buchman]

Re: How to connect 6 monitors to a PC?

does the 1070 really have 4 independant outputs?
i thought it only had 2 - not connectors but actual streams.

I have 5 outputs but 4 are actual streaming. I think it depends on the version for each country.

[R_J]

Re: How to connect 6 monitors to a PC?

I forgot to mention that I need to see a different picture on all monitors.
Do you have a link with an example of the video amplifier?
I googled it and it seems that it's not what I am looking for.

If this is what you want to do, You can't take one output and SPLIT it and expect the video to be different on each monitor.

[eccerr0r]

Re: How to connect 6 monitors to a PC?

USB video "cards"...

...suck...

[momaka]

Re: How to connect 6 monitors to a PC?

Some one told me that I have to install same graphics card that I currently have.

NO, unless you want to run the cards in SLI... which is pointless and hence pretty much dead these days.

Could you be more specific what you are trying to do when you use the 6 monitors? If it's not related to gaming or rendering in 3D on all 6 monitors at the same time, then you can use any plain low-end garbage PCI-E video card (or PCI if you don't have any more PCI-E slots??) The 2nd (cheap/low-end) card will just be used as a display device. So long as you don't require it to do crazy 3D rendering, you can get away with just that. Just pick a low-end card that has all the outputs you need. It doesn't have to be new... or an nVidia (though it might make sense both cards to be from the same company so you can configure them together with same control panel at once vs. having one for nVidia and one for ATI/AMD, which could be annoying for multi-monitor setup.) Moreover, going with something low-end (low power) and you won't have to worry about your power supply.

On that note, though, what kind of "750 Watt" power supply are you running - i.e. brand name and model? If it's a no-name, I'd be worried regardless. But if it's something like an EVGA, Corsair, Thermaltake, Antec, Seasonic, or other known-brand name, then it's more than enough for your current GTX1070 with lots of room to spare for another low-mid-range GPU from just about any era... so no need to upgrade it.

[Uranium-235]

Re: How to connect 6 monitors to a PC?

I have an EVGA 1070ti with five (DVI, hdmi, 3xDP)

[stj]

Re: How to connect 6 monitors to a PC?

i bet the DVI and HDMI are in parallel.
they are afterall the same signals with a different connector.
HDMI just adds audio and encryption

[buchman]

Re: How to connect 6 monitors to a PC?

Bought this one, hope it will be OK.
I want more monitors for stock trading.
My power supply is Corsair TX750M.

https://www.ebay.com/itm/Plugable-7-....m46890.l49292

[R_J]

Re: How to connect 6 monitors to a PC?

How is a USB hub going to get you 7 "separate and unique" video signals from the pc?
Maybe something similar to this https://www.matrox.com/en/video/prod...88-lp-pcie-x16

[Uranium-235]

Re: How to connect 6 monitors to a PC?

i bet the DVI and HDMI are in parallel.
they are afterall the same signals with a different connector.
HDMI just adds audio and encryption

That could be true. They could be DP+ and just shunt the HDMI source there for passive connector compatibility

[Uranium-235]

Re: How to connect 6 monitors to a PC?

I thought he got USB's and display ports confused. Unless he's using separate USB graphics adapters (with what he's using for, which is stock trading, which I don't think takes up much graphics power). Still....that is a lot of bandwidth, even for USB 3.0, especially if they're 4k. I think there is a maximum for something like that

[eccerr0r]

Re: How to connect 6 monitors to a PC?

Yeah he'll still need USB to video adapters for each monitor. I was playing with a USB2 video adapter, these are miserable if you want to do graphics on it, but just to display a mostly static display it's just fine. Update rate is noticeably slower than a regular video card.

I've never/had tried USB3 video adapter. For the most part I think it's a last resort option...

[Uranium-235]

Re: How to connect 6 monitors to a PC?

USB video for 2.0 was ages ago, they're more powerful, but x3, Or get a USB PCI-E card so it's hot hubbed

Still, a cheap video card instead of 3x USB gpu's would be best option. I think the USB graphics adapters combined would be too slow, and to expensive

[dragos2009]

Re: How to connect 6 monitors to a PC?

you can try get a nvidia quadro nvs810 it has 8 display port outputs that is the only video card i know which has that many outputs