hey guys,
I'm working on a project for in which I need to run 20 monitors off a single computer running windows 10. Unfortunately because of a nondisclosure I cannot say specifics in what it is for. I just want to know if any of you know how to do this and what the best way of doing it would be. The monitors are 2048X1536 so we need a fairly high resolution but there is no need for high frame rates or low latency.
thanks,
I am no expert, but here is my best guess.
Most graphics cards have at most 4 outputs, soeven if you setup a 4-way graphics card setup you wont have enough ports. DisplayPort to the rescue! I believe DP can daisy chain one monitor to another but I do not know how that works. Most of the AMD FirePro / Radeon Pro GPU's have 4 DP outputs.
The one @CrossCarbon linked to above may be better because it has 6 mini DisplayPorts.
I hope that gets you started.
2-3 of these Matrox GPUS
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814106057&cm_re=matrox-_-14-106-057-_-Product
or a bunch of the things @CrossCarbon linked... tho those may be rather low powered for that many displays
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also
this thing has 8 display outs
is also a lot more expensive
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814106057&cm_re=matrox-_-14-106-057-_-Product
Pretty much just going to need a ton of graphics cards
Plugable has a video on 14 displays
Ventuz is a thing too I guess, no idea about it
This looks like a good idea
If you wanted to go really ghetto mode and your motherboard has at least 5 PCIe slots, you could have 5 FireMV 2400s and 10 VHDCI to DVI adapters. Those are workstation cards that can support 4 DVI connections at once.
They're on eBay for about $20 apiece and the adapters aren't that expensive. Probably only cost you like $250 to $300.
I would have suggested the Matrox C900, only problem beeing the limitation of 1920x1200 on each output.
Tis why I called our graphics lord and saviour.
He's not a Lord or a Savior. He is a Wizard.
Well if we're going in that direction he's a warlock.
Only if he uses the GPUs as magical weapons. Which given the Illuminati GPU Ziggurat he and I built, that might be the case.
he is a furry wizard lol
I thought there was small box expansion hubs that could to it
Nononono KAGE is a furry wizard, Fouquin is just some bark.
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yea I saw that. I don't know if we'd run into resolution problems running so many monitors off USB though. it seems like he's running all those off vga.
They sent me a reply on twitter
Hmm, i cant think of a cheap way to do this, do you want to mirror the screens or landscape?
If you want landscape at high resolution you might want to look into pcie expansion and ruining multiple cards.
It doesn't need them bridged or in crossfire ect. to do this it just needs the cards horse power to process the high resolution.
If it's just mirroring you can just buy a powered display splitter.