4 Portrait Monitors?

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4 Portrait Monitors? 2016-03-22 21:40:37 Post No. 1157516
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4 Portrait Monitors? Anonymous 2016-03-22 21:40:37 Post No. 1157516 [Report]

Hi /biz/, for a long time now I have been working on a trading system which utilizes webscrapping stock prices at up to 1-sec timeframe and implemented a lot since then in R and Python. Still I would like to keep an eye on all the code and programs running and possibly the automated trades the system is executing. I would like to have 3-4 monitors with minimum Full-HD resolution in portrait mode.

I know I need a lot of CPU-power and memory for running R and Python multiple times at high-frequency, all the machines I would like to buy (up to $2k budget just for the machine) come with fancy GPUs like the 980GTX but that feels like overkill. I don't play games at all but I understand that one needs a card with enough DVI/HDMI slots for 4 monitors, so what approximate class of Graphics cards would you recommend?

Pic related, that is how it would look like approximately.

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Anonymous 2016-03-22 21:53:19 Post No.1157530
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Anonymous 2016-03-22 21:53:19 Post No.1157530 [Report]

you're a wizard henri

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Anonymous 2016-03-22 22:36:24 Post No.1157593
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Anonymous 2016-03-22 22:36:24 Post No.1157593 [Report]

>>1157516

>using sublime text
>not using vim

never gonna make it

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Anonymous 2016-03-22 22:39:23 Post No.1157599
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Anonymous 2016-03-22 22:39:23 Post No.1157599 [Report]

>>1157593
>preferences

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Anonymous 2016-03-22 22:42:14 Post No.1157604
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Anonymous 2016-03-22 22:42:14 Post No.1157604 [Report]

You can probably code up a simple interface with info condescended into it.

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Anonymous 2016-03-22 22:45:42 Post No.1157606
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Anonymous 2016-03-22 22:45:42 Post No.1157606 [Report]

Why would you need a single card capable of driving four monitors by itself? You could do that with two cards driving two monitors each just as easily.

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Anonymous 2016-03-22 22:49:31 Post No.1157610
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Anonymous 2016-03-22 22:49:31 Post No.1157610 [Report]

>>1157604
I though of doing that but I dont trust my system enough yet, so I want to have an eye on pretty much everything. Would hate to see if one part fails unnoticed and I start losing money systematically.

>>1157606
Whats the cheaper option? wouldn't I need an SLI mainboard for 2 cards?

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Anonymous 2016-03-22 22:52:14 Post No.1157611
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Anonymous 2016-03-22 22:52:14 Post No.1157611 [Report]

Almost all cards support 4 displays, you just need a splitter. Buy any of the low end cards, 710, 7750, and two splitters for dvi or hdmi. More than one card would be inefficient at best.

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Anonymous 2016-03-22 22:54:40 Post No.1157614
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Anonymous 2016-03-22 22:54:40 Post No.1157614 [Report]

>>1157611
thank you, yes I am just starting reading up on people more on more often who have older 7x cards running 4 monitors. seems possible, they even play games so it should suffice.

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Anonymous 2016-03-22 22:58:41 Post No.1157619
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Anonymous 2016-03-22 22:58:41 Post No.1157619 [Report]

>>1157610
No, it's not like gaming where the cards need to link or even match brands. The other option is a "business graphics" card like this one with an Nvidia Quadro chipset which is designed to run 4 displays without the special whizbang stuff gaming needs:
http://www.amazon.com/PNY-DisplayPort-Profesional-Business-VCQ450NVS-X16-PB/dp/B001NIIFO6

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Anonymous 2016-03-22 23:01:36 Post No.1157627
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Anonymous 2016-03-22 23:01:36 Post No.1157627 [Report]

>>1157619
thank you, never heard of the Quadro series before. Will look into it.

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Anonymous 2016-03-23 16:17:06 Post No.1158702
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Anonymous 2016-03-23 16:17:06 Post No.1158702 [Report]

>>1157516
Hey, Anon:
>>1158701