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Budget (including currency): ¥69,420

Games, programs or workloads that it will be used for: Doom, Doom II, Minecraft

Other details: 20A breaker

I collected a total of 26 I think 1080p monitors last summer, all the same brand and size.
Since then I've been slowly acquiring hardware as the price gets right to put together a 21 monitor setup.

My gpu of choice is the firepro v9800 since it has support for a external sync card and is cheap.

I so far have two gpus now, and want to plan out the rest of the build.
These gpus as I said support a sync card, so every display will be in sync with each other across all four cards, and they have 6 outputs which brings my total to up to 24 displays.
Unfortunately they support a max of 12 displays in eyefinity and 2 way crossfire, but they are cypress so its not like it could even game any real games. I will just stretch windowed mode games across all the monitors.

 

So I want to get something up and going with a 3x4 setup for now meaning I need a motherboard, case, psu, all that stuff.

Now I own a evga SR-2 which would work for this, BUT... I dont think a power supply exists that is 1800w.

My other thoughts were well the gpus are late 2010, the phenom II x6 1100T BE is late 2010, and the asus crosshair iv extreme is also well, late 2010.

I could make it interesting with this and fit it in a power budget of a 1500w power supply.

 

what other motherboard could I get for sub $200 that would plug in 4 dual slot gpus and werk?

pic of gpus because why not20230223_143815.thumb.jpg.aa75468683c617fccaed8378de05290f.jpg

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Sell the 26 monitors.

 

Buy 9  1080p or 4K tvs depending on budget, 32" for 1080p , 40"+ for 4K ...  I can buy in the local store, new 4K 40" TV at $215 

 

Those video cards with only 4GB VRAM won't run games at 11520x4320  (6 x 4 configuration)

 

Each monitor consumes maybe 30-50w depending on brightness levels - 24 monitors would end up consuming 700-1200w just on their own.

 

The video cards will consume up to around 150w each in games, in 2D not that much. You won't need a 1500w psu for the computer, but a 1000-1200w would be recommended if you actually insist on using FOUR such video cards in the system  (good luck finding a motherboard that will have 4 slots with at least 4-8 pci-e lanes, otherwise you'd choke the cards)

 

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7 minutes ago, mariushm said:

Sell the 26 monitors.

 

Buy 9  1080p or 4K tvs depending on budget, 32" for 1080p , 40"+ for 4K ...  I can buy in the local store, new 4K 40" TV at $215 

 

Those video cards with only 4GB VRAM won't run games at 11520x4320  (6 x 4 configuration)

 

Each monitor consumes maybe 30-50w depending on brightness levels - 24 monitors would end up consuming 700-1200w just on their own.

 

The video cards will consume up to around 150w each in games, in 2D not that much. You won't need a 1500w psu for the computer, but a 1000-1200w would be recommended if you actually insist on using FOUR such video cards in the system  (good luck finding a motherboard that will have 4 slots with at least 4-8 pci-e lanes, otherwise you'd choke the cards)

 

not an option.

also I was thinking 7x3.

It's more for fun, it will be stupid to just buy three tvs and its stupid to use 21 monitors but its more fun and interesting.

each gpu is rated for 250w

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