Cheap Video Wall Alternative

[TechFanboy]

Hi guys...

 

Just wondering if you have tried to setup a videowall?..Disclaimer: Not for Gaming.  We are looking to setup one on a budget.... $3000 to be exact LOL... Do not worry about the panels because we are already looking to buy a cheap 48 inch TCL monitor (FULL HD).. so that brings us around $1351.. 3x2 configuration... Now this is the part where it gets messy and stressful.... So i know we can do this by buying a GPU which will support 6 displays at once... basically on AMD Side, almost all GPUS that have DP 1.2 can do the job... with a hub of course and i would probably need an active adapter. (HDMI only not sure if the tv supports 1.1 or 1.2 or higher). now my question is.. if somehow we go for a 3x3 configuration using AMD Gpu's that have 3 x DP 1.2 theoretically can it happen? 3 x DP 1.2 using 3 Hubs & a bunch of Active adapters.. will it drive 9 LCD panels?,  Having Doubts about this but in my mind i think it will not work probably because there's no information about these yet. Based on AMD"s Website most GPU"s With DP 1.2 Supports up to 6 displays so there's that... There is a new GPU that can handle 9 Outputs.. it is the Matrox C900 if i'm not mistaken.. but that thing will probably cost More than $1000 which is EXPENSIVE... Anyways Thanks for those who can help. Thanks A lot.

 

 

[Enderman]

http://www.matrox.com/graphics/en/

 

cheaper than AMD gaming GPUs and you can find cards with 4,6,9, etc... outputs

 

this one can do 9 http://www.matrox.com/graphics/en/products/graphics_cards/c-series/c900/

[TechFanboy]

1 hour ago, Enderman said:

http://www.matrox.com/graphics/en/

 

cheaper than AMD gaming GPUs and you can find cards with 4,6,9, etc... outputs

 

this one can do 9 http://www.matrox.com/graphics/en/products/graphics_cards/c-series/c900/

That is what i am saying... those things will not be cheap... as i said it will probably cost more than $1000.. it's just recently showcased last February..

[thekeemo]

1 minute ago, TechFanboy said:

That is what i am saying... those things will not be cheap... as i said it will probably cost more than $1000.. it's just recently showcased last February..

You could use two GPUs

[TechFanboy]

10 hours ago, thekeemo said:

You could use two GPUs

But how? i could put to GPU'S but Eyefinity will not work on both cards right? and either way i'm not sure if you can use the 2nd GPU's Outputs when in Eyefinity mode.

[thekeemo]

1 hour ago, TechFanboy said:

But how? i could put to GPU'S but Eyefinity will not work on both cards right? and either way i'm not sure if you can use the 2nd GPU's Outputs when in Eyefinity mode.

You can't use eyefinity it only supports 6 dp monitors the two GPUs would be fully independant

[TechFanboy]

22 minutes ago, thekeemo said:

You can't use eyefinity it only supports 6 dp monitors the two GPUs would be fully independant

That's what i thought.... Basically all we want is.. Display a Content i.e Video/Picture on the displays itself, meaning the Whole Panels Will be a one big Screen (combining them all hence like the Eyefinity). 

[thekeemo]

33 minutes ago, TechFanboy said:

That's what i thought.... Basically all we want is.. Display a Content i.e Video/Picture on the displays itself, meaning the Whole Panels Will be a one big Screen (combining them all hence like the Eyefinity). 

That is out of the scope of consumer grade products what you can do without 4 or 6 of the monitors act as one showing one main thing and have the rest of them showing off different things.

[TechFanboy]

On 4/11/2016 at 5:04 PM, thekeemo said:

That is out of the scope of consumer grade products what you can do without 4 or 6 of the monitors act as one showing one main thing and have the rest of them showing off different things.

Yep.. Just confirmed.. you can use a prosumer product... i.e firepro w600 to drive 6 or more displays. thanks for the help though. 

[thekeemo]

On 4/11/2016 at 7:05 PM, TechFanboy said:

That is what i am saying... those things will not be cheap... as i said it will probably cost more than $1000.. it's just recently showcased last February..

Dont think they support eyefinity

quote for the W600

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 driving up to six displays 

http://www.amd.com/en-us/solutions/professional/display-walls

But if you have two you can run 12

http://www.amd.com/en-us/products/graphics/workstation/firepro-display-wall/w600#3

edit they do

[TechFanboy]

On 4/17/2016 at 4:38 AM, thekeemo said:

Dont think they support eyefinity

quote for the W600

http://www.amd.com/en-us/solutions/professional/display-walls

But if you have two you can run 12

http://www.amd.com/en-us/products/graphics/workstation/firepro-display-wall/w600#3

edit they do

Yap no Eyefinity but the 6 DP 1.2 so you can put a MST Hub..