firsttimebuilder

he doesnt need DX10 and if he did its not like a 8600gt could play a DX10 game
DX9 cards such as the x1950's or 7 series offer a better price: performance ratio

http://www.tomshardware.com/charts/g...score,538.html

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tlarkin

Um, what?

This is incorrect, it doesn't take any extra power to run multiple displays other than a video card that can handle multiple displays.

I would check out Matrox cards, as they are some of the best with multiple displays. You can get a cheap one that will output to 4 monitors no problem.

You can accomplish what you want with 1 matrox card, and save money.

http://matrox.com/graphics/en/corpo/products/home.php

Any video card Nvidia makes will only benefit you in gaming (geforce series) or rendering (quadro) and multiple displays does not take any kind of special powers, it just takes the right product.

Kornowski

Dude, I wouldn't get two 8600's, or 8500's. For the same price, I'm sure you could get a single 8800GT, or even an ATI HD3870.

SLI, at the moment, aint that great. Especially with the 8600's.

Just my input!

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tlarkin

This rig is not for gaming, it is for multiple monitors, he would not be running SLI either.

Read the thread!

Kornowski

Alright, my bad... Chill.

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I am chill, if I wasn't I would have used caps lock.

Nevakonaza

Yeah hes not using it for gaming...everytime someone posts up a build list for general use like internet and stuff like that people go and recomend a c2d,8800 card and about 4 gigs of ram.

lol its just not needed for what some people do with their rigs

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Platinum

Thank you all for your input. Finally people who make some sense here. I knew those parts could handle what I wanted.

Alright I'll look into those vid cards. Thanks man.

You're an idiot. If you had read what I originally wrote I was going to be using software like Ultramon. I said, the only 2 programs I'd really be running on this rig is powerpoint and ultramon. I also said I was gunna have the monitors showing the menus... why would I want each monitor showing the same thing... that would be pointless.


Thank you everyone else who actually read the thread and put some thought into what you wrote without assuming this was for gaming.

Another setup I was looking into is this:



But now that I see I can use the matrox video card to accomplish what I want, ignore those video cards...

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tlarkin

I am actually old enough to remember the beginning of video cards....

In the beginning there were three major video card companies and then almost immediately after there was a 4th. Those were ATI, STB, Matrox and the late fourth comer was Voodoo (or 3dFX). STB got bought out and Voodoo ran ATi and Matrox for their money. Nvidia came into play with more competition and then Nvidia basically crushed Voodoo around the Voodoo 3 series, Voodoo 5s came out but just could not compete, Nvidia bought them out.

All the while Matrox shifted their market into multiple display video cards. They are pretty much the best in the market when wanting to use and control multiple monitors and they are not that expensive either. While they avoided the video card wars by migrating more into a niche market, they also at the same time cornered that niche market.

Sorry for the history lesson, you whipper snappers, now get off my lawn!

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Forgot about Trident, I cant believe I still have some old ISA Trident Video cards.

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