Two graphics cards + 5 monitors

[absal0m]

Good afternoon to all, I am new to the forum and I come to you to consult a problem that I am facing with the hope that someone will be able to guide me.

Currently I have a Radeon HD 6950 with the following ports:
1 Display Port –> Active DisplayPort to DVI Adapter –> 19" Monitor
1 HDMI –> 24" Led Monitor
1 DVI –> 19" VGA Monitor

I would like to be able to set up 2 other VGA monitors that I have around the house, so that in the end I would have a workstation with 5 monitors. My motherboard is a Gigabyte G1.Sniper 3 Z77, so I have 4 slots for graphics cards, excluding the one that is already occupied.

Does anyone have a scenario similar to this? Is it possible to install a second ATI graphics card to which I can connect two VGA monitors without it conflicting with the first ATI 6950? Or by adding another 6950 to do crossfire?

The result would be something like this.

Thank you very much and hopefully someone can shed some light, thank you.

[Franziskaner]

Hello and welcome
Why do you want 5 monitors
Best regards

[krampak]

You should probably connect 2 graphics cards and use their outputs individually, without using Eyefinity since it does not support 5 monitor setups (1,2,3,4,6). I'm not sure if you could do the same with CrossFire.

Someone out there with a 6950 and a 5850 says:

Confirming,
6950 crossfire & 5850 single works fine together.
Also confirming 6950 with crossfire removed also is working fine along with 5850
Also confirming second monitor connected to DVI of second 6950 and re-boot and connect to 5850, is also working fine.

So this means if there is no need for eyefinity or cross-fire and only multi-monitor needed for work or multi tasking.

Then you can connect 3 to 4 monitors on each card and three cards radeons on single pc means that minimum of six monitors using only the standard two DVI ports of the each cards.

[Jotole]

I am not familiar with the AMD multimonitor, but I imagine that with a second card you could put the 5 monitors without problems.

Whether or not to do CF is independent, the second card will give you video output to those monitors you want. Another thing is that you do not do CF to have the maximum video performance, but if what you want is only image, I do not think it will give you problems.

Salu2…