Display splitter

[Peon]

Hi,

Can someone point me in the right direction in terms of what hardware is required to split a desktop into 4 seperate physical screens. A cheap R500 vga splitter doesnt do it.

My client trades online on currencies etc,etc and wants multiple monitors. Intel WiFi display applicable?

 

[Keigo]

Get a Quadro NVS 420.

http://www.nvidia.com/object/product_quadro_nvs_420_us.html

 

[bruce_the_loon]

You can also do it with an Nvidia Kepler card that has 4 outputs(look for 2xDVI, 1xHDMI, 1xVGA in the product description), or get a motherboard with dual on-board video ports and add a dual port PCIe card to it. You will have to confirm that the motherboard has the option in BIOS to keep the on-board video active even when a video card is plugged into the motherboard and then configure the setting in BIOS. Most of the Intel boards can do this these days as can the newer Asus boards. I've tested this with an Intel DQ67OW board from 2011 and it works.

Once you have 4 monitors detected in Windows, you can just drag them around to arrange them as the client wants.

 

[Dean]

Get a Quadro NVS 420.

http://www.nvidia.com/object/product_quadro_nvs_420_us.html

Yea my trading clients either use Quadros, or for max power; two machines with two screens each and one of the usual apps to link the keyboard and mouse to both.

 

[Peon]

Client likes laptops. Laptops can be taken and locked away in a safe. I am currently looking at the J5 create option.

Thank you for all your feedback so far.

 

[Pada]

You can try the EVGA UV Plus 39 adapter that takes USB 2.0/3.0 to HDMI + DVI. We use it at our office to run 3-4 screens off a laptop.

Unfortunately it is laggy, but for certain lines of work that lagg does not matter - like if you're watching log output, reading Emails, etc.

Get a Quadro NVS 420.

http://www.nvidia.com/object/product_quadro_nvs_420_us.html

Does it give you 2 virtual displays spanned over 4 or does it provide you with 4 controllable display outputs that you can rearrange as you like? Like we bought KFA2 GeForce 210 cards that had 2 virtual displays spanned across 4 displays, which kind of sucks.

 

[Keigo]

Does it give you 2 virtual displays spanned over 4 or does it provide you with 4 controllable display outputs that you can rearrange as you like? Like we bought KFA2 GeForce 210 cards that had 2 virtual displays spanned across 4 displays, which kind of sucks.

Depend on card maker, it have 4 physical Display Output, it can go up to 2560x1600 per screen up to 4 screen max (Display Port only). If it is HDMI output, it will be limited to 1920x1080 (if I remember it correctly). How you arrange the monitor is up to you.

http://www3.pny.com/images/PackProdShots/ProfessionalGraphics/NVS/NVS420x16-LRG.jpg

 

[ichigo]

Client likes laptops. Laptops can be taken and locked away in a safe. I am currently looking at the J5 create option.

Thank you for all your feedback so far.

Not sure what my church uses but it shares a VGA connection from a laptop to 5 monitors for our music and seems to have a converter box or something will have to check the next time I am there .

 

[Peon]

Not sure what my church uses but it shares a VGA connection from a laptop to 5 monitors for our music and seems to have a converter box or something will have to check the next time I am there .

Would appreciate it.

 

[bruce_the_loon]

Client likes laptops. Laptops can be taken and locked away in a safe. I am currently looking at the J5 create option.

Thank you for all your feedback so far.

You could look at a proper video wall controller, iView Data has some, http://www.iiview.com/, as does Ambery, http://www.ambery.com/2x2hdvgaviwa.html. Those units are normally in the $800 range though.

 

[Pada]

Not sure what my church uses but it shares a VGA connection from a laptop to 5 monitors for our music and seems to have a converter box or something will have to check the next time I am there .

VGA splitters are cheap, seeing that they only replicate and increase the signal strength. So is it replicating the VGA feed to 5 monitors, or is it 5 different feeds to the 5 monitors from the single laptop?

 

[Totempole]

http://www.aocmonitorap.com/root/hk_en/product_display.php?id=152

A few of these USB monitors and a powered USB 3.0 hub with lots of ports could work. How many USB ports does the laptop have?
Each monitor requires 1-2 USB ports.