How to connect 6 monitors to one system unit?

Question

AMD

The situation is such that there is a need (everything depends on the dimensions) to assemble only one system unit and connect 6 panels of 32 inches each with an hdmi input to it. All must work in full hd resolution.
I've already considered 2 options:
1. Radeon HD 5970 with eyefinity, but active adapters are required here, which I can't find anywhere for a week now.
2. Three vidyahi with two dvi outputs each, then put on each dvi adapter to hdmi. But the question is, will such a combination work in Windows? If yes, what is needed for this?

Answer 1

Damn, they advised here. As a person who has been assembling video walls and multi-monitor configurations for 5 years, I will comment:
-Eyefinity - will work. If you buy 4 active adapters. Together with the price of the card, it turns out impressively.
-Nvidia SLI - nothing to do with it at all. SLI is a technology for increasing performance, not the number of outputs.
-Nvidia Quadro - it will work, but since they have a maximum of 4 inputs, you will need two of them (Nvidia technical support somehow officially confirmed to me that two quadros in one system unit will work, and when asked if three will work, they answered - “try and let us know what happened, we are also interested)
-Matrox - will work well if you need to display only text, static graphics or windows of some CAD system. When it comes to Full-HD video or 3D games, matrox is not an option. Plus, buying it in our region is difficult.
-USB monitors are nonsense. I don't even want to comment on it.
In your case, I would recommend a motherboard with 3 PCI-Express and 3 average video cards (almost any, the main thing is that they are “thin” - they occupy 1 PCI-Express slot and have 2 digital outputs (DVI \ HDMI). Everything works I've built both 8 and 10 monitor configurations myself (I can give a link to the photo) Don't believe any rumors about a maximum of 8 monitors on Windows - for Windows 7 this number is 64.
Good luck.

Answer 2

In general, many thanks to everyone! I have already done it and will write soon how it turned out. For now, I’ll say beforehand that I collected everything on the mother with 3 PCI-E and 3 GTS-450. It turned out and the price is acceptable, and the quality is quite very even nothing.
p.s. Happy New Year everyone!

Answer 3

in general, there are very good solutions from Matrox for connecting multiple monitors.
for example, this option: www.matrox.com/graphics/en/products/gxm/th2go/ or this: www.matrox.com/graphics/en/products/dcb/atc_series/atc_rg400sl/
the second removes the issue with the maximum cable length ( up to 100m promise).
Naturally, they will cost extra money, but it is possible that the difference in price with a set of vids will not be much higher than the reliability and convenience received in return.

Answer 4

On Matrox I personally assembled configurations for 10 monitors. But matroxes are relatively expensive with mediocre performance and availability. On the other hand, they do not use active cooling at all. Pretty stable work, have a quality performance. And in my opinion, it should be assembled on cards from one manufacturer ATI or Nvidia.
In general, here is this site to help:
www.realtimesoft.com/multimon/db.asp

Answer 5

I recommend moving away from the original limitations by using an "infinite" DVI extender.

Answer 6

Nvidia 3-way SLI
Should work, in Windows it will work without problems
If you need to show videos on each, then just launch 6 instances of the video player and simply drag each one to your monitor
In principle, it should not be so expensive, but everything depends on malicious adapters and DVI
I myself recently encountered the fact that DVI has 3 different types of connectors: DVI, DVI-D, DVI-I
In DVI-D, which seems to be put on all video cards now, you can put a DVI-D -> HDMI adapter and connection problems LCD panels should not be.
One single BUT - everything depends on the length of the cable, what is the maximum length of the HDMI cable - I don’t know

Answer 7

I'm just curious - has anyone done this before?

Answer 8

although a certain number of video cards under Windows will work out of the box (there are 4 monitors and 3 video cards in the computer near the house), they didn’t say the main thing here ... judging by the size of the panels, do you want to combine them into one large screen? then you can't do without eyefinity, because all other options under Windows will give a bunch of separate screens. and in eyefinity for the operating system it will be one physical screen, plus you can set up frame compensation so that objects do not jump around the monitors, but take into account the thickness of the screen framing.

Answer 9

I actively work on 2 video cards with 3 monitors. It is unlikely that Windows and vidyushki will not allow you to connect even more if technically possible. You buy a motherboard with 3 PCI-Ex 16x (no need to assemble 3-way SLI) connectors and 3 video cards, with the ability to connect 2 HDMI. Leads with a price of about 3k already have a built-in hdmi and one DVI-hdmi adapter in the kit. hdmi cable (according to the specification) stretches up to 10 meters, and with the help of special cables it is twice as long. I myself work on nVidia video cards, there are no problems with them. Unless I advise you to take economy-class video cards, they do not hold FullHD via HDMI, they hold it more precisely (i.e. they will show it), but when watching a movie, the brakes are clearly noticeable (i.e. the feeling that the fps channel of the necessary does not issue).

Answer 10

by the way, about SLI you were misinformed there above, this is just not at all what you need, like crossfire. these technologies combine the power of multiple graphics cards to accelerate 3d rendering on a single monitor connected to a "master" card.
if you do not need to combine LCD panels into one large screen, then any three vidyuhi will do, with two outputs on each. preferably one manufacturer (nvidia vs amd), but in the case of WinXP and Win7, you can use different ones, you just have to take a steam bath with drivers (Vista will not do this at all for architectural reasons, and in seven and XP, Nvidia drivers have built-in protection against working together with drivers Radeon'ov, manages with special versions of drivers or patches).

Answer 11

www3.pny.com/QuadroPDFs/QuadroLineCard.pdf?

Answer 12

You can purchase USB monitors and connect them.