Need help selecting high-res quad-screen solution

I'd like to hook up 4 large LCD panels to one PC. My preference would
be 4 30" Apple Cinema or equivalent monitors. Some questions:

1) Are there any quad-head dual-link DVI cards? I couldn't find any.
2) Are there cards that could drive two dual-link DVI inputs of two
Cinemas?
3) Would it be possible to have two video cards in one PC, each driving
two Cinemas? All of the motherboards around here have maybe one PCI
express or one AGP but not multiple.
4) Is the quality between DVI and a good analog solution very
significant? The displayed content would be mostly static so speed is
not an issue.

Thanks,
Andrew

'Andrew' wrote, in part:
| I'd like to hook up 4 large LCD panels to one PC.
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Consider a turnkey solution. You are starting from zero on a project that
will be very expensive; might as well get it right.

Phil Weldon

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| I'd like to hook up 4 large LCD panels to one PC. My preference would
| be 4 30" Apple Cinema or equivalent monitors. Some questions:
|
| 1) Are there any quad-head dual-link DVI cards? I couldn't find any.
| 2) Are there cards that could drive two dual-link DVI inputs of two
| Cinemas?
| 3) Would it be possible to have two video cards in one PC, each driving
| two Cinemas? All of the motherboards around here have maybe one PCI
| express or one AGP but not multiple.
| 4) Is the quality between DVI and a good analog solution very
| significant? The displayed content would be mostly static so speed is
| not an issue.
|
| Thanks,
| Andrew
|

schrieb:

I'd like to hook up 4 large LCD panels to one PC. My preference would
be 4 30" Apple Cinema or equivalent monitors. Some questions:

1) Are there any quad-head dual-link DVI cards? I couldn't find any.

Sure, since there are none. So You'd need two gfx cards with 2x DL DVI...

2) Are there cards that could drive two dual-link DVI inputs of two
Cinemas?

IIRC the Quadro FX 3400 and FX 4400 can drive two DL displays. So you'd
need two of them

3) Would it be possible to have two video cards in one PC, each driving
two Cinemas? All of the motherboards around here have maybe one PCI
express or one AGP but not multiple.

No, you need a PCIe mobo with two PCIe16x (PEG) slots (usually also
called SLI-capable mobo)...

4) Is the quality between DVI and a good analog solution very
significant? The displayed content would be mostly static so speed is
not an issue.

It would be significant but since the Apple Cinema displays all are
DVI-only (they have no analog input) this doesn't really matter at all...

Benjamin

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says...
I'd like to hook up 4 large LCD panels to one PC. My preference would
be 4 30" Apple Cinema or equivalent monitors. Some questions:

1) Are there any quad-head dual-link DVI cards? I couldn't find any.
2) Are there cards that could drive two dual-link DVI inputs of two
Cinemas?
3) Would it be possible to have two video cards in one PC, each driving
two Cinemas? All of the motherboards around here have maybe one PCI
express or one AGP but not multiple.
4) Is the quality between DVI and a good analog solution very
significant? The displayed content would be mostly static so speed is
not an issue.

Thanks,
Andrew



http://www.digitaltigers.com/zenview-quad21s.shtml

Bill

"Bill" wrote in message
...
In article .com,
says...
I'd like to hook up 4 large LCD panels to one PC. My preference would
be 4 30" Apple Cinema or equivalent monitors. Some questions:

1) Are there any quad-head dual-link DVI cards? I couldn't find any.
2) Are there cards that could drive two dual-link DVI inputs of two
Cinemas?
3) Would it be possible to have two video cards in one PC, each driving
two Cinemas? All of the motherboards around here have maybe one PCI
express or one AGP but not multiple.
4) Is the quality between DVI and a good analog solution very
significant? The displayed content would be mostly static so speed is
not an issue.

Thanks,
Andrew



http://www.digitaltigers.com/zenview-quad21s.shtml

Bill

Those are pretty cool but we want at least 100ppi so we'd need at
least (our) 23" display at 1920 horizontal or something like the 30" Apple.

I'll contact them to see if they have anything bigger.

Andrew

I use Colographic Xentera GT cards in my network control consoles at
work. Each card is a quad-head DVI based off 2 Radeon 9500 chips, and
they offer AGP, PCI, and PCIe versions. Was around $500-$600 per card,
IIRC.
http://www.colorgraphic.net/newsite/..._overview.html
I have each console desktop driving 8 19in HP displays with one AGP and
one PCI card. Works great so far.

HTH,
Kendt