9 Display Outputs !?!!??

[Zulu Alpha]

 Can anyone explain this?

http://www.matrox.com/graphics/en/products/graphics_cards/c-series/c900/

[SLAYR]

When you need a shit ton of monitors.

[Enderman]

It's for display walls. What needs to be explained?

[doomsriker]

Think of it as a mosaic. it is not a true multi monitor setup, it simply stripes together many monitors as one large 1080p monitor

[Zulu Alpha]

1 minute ago, Enderman said:

It's for display walls. What needs to be explained?

The power draw, memory, bandwidth, and idk.... I just dont get it. the form factor?

[ultimatemythbuster]

There are users that need many monitors but don't need a lot of graphics horsepower.  For instance, where I work our 911 dispatchers have 7 monitors on 2 workstations.  5 of the monitors are on a single workstation.

[Electronics Wizardy]

1 minute ago, QasimAbbasi said:

The power draw, memory, bandwidth, and idk.... I just dont get it. the form factor?

Have you ever been to something like a airport with a wall of monitors displaying a image?

 

 

Or a resturant using them for menus?

 

These cards are for sinage, no desktop use.

[doomsriker]

this increases the physical size of the monitor, but not the resolution. It is the same number of pixels, and thus just as easy to run. a 9000 inch 1080p (unrealistic lol) screen is just as easy to drive as an 11inch 1080p screen. 

[Oshino Shinobu]

3 minutes ago, QasimAbbasi said:

The power draw, memory, bandwidth, and idk.... I just dont get it. the form factor?

The card isn't designed to be high performance. It just needs to run displays. Think things like systems monitoring (security systems, power plant monitoring) and financial/stock trading. Things where you need lots of information at once. 

 

EDIT: Seems this particular card is designed for signs. Multiple monitors is normally more cost effective than one large one for signs.

[Zulu Alpha]

Oh i get, thanks.

So basically to run something less demanding on a high res monitor does not require much power. 

[SLAYR]

2 minutes ago, QasimAbbasi said:

The power draw, memory, bandwidth, and idk.... I just dont get it. the form factor?

These are enterprise grade cards, that is what matrox cards are for just running displays, no graphics processing.

 

The specs are decent 4gb ddr5 isn't bad.

4 minutes ago, doomsriker said:

Think of it as a mosaic. it is not a true multi monitor setup, it simply stripes together many monitors as one large 1080p monitor

It wouldn't stripe them at all, it will show as 9 individual monitors in the OS, it says it is based off amd, so it could possibly use eyefinity to create a massive resolution.

[Electronics Wizardy]

Just now, QasimAbbasi said:

Oh i get, thanks.

So basically to run something less demanding on a high res monitor does not require much power. 

These are mainly used for video playback or basic 2 and 3d animations, not games.

 

These are running amd chips.

[doomsriker]

again, this is not multi monitor in the traditional sense. the resolution of all the monitors (all 9) is collectively 1080p and you only get one big screen, not several independent displays. 

[Zulu Alpha]

Thanks Guy, Really! I LOVE YOU ALL!

[jeffmeyer5295]

mo' monitors less problems son'

[Enderman]

36 minutes ago, QasimAbbasi said:

The power draw, memory, bandwidth, and idk.... I just dont get it. the form factor?

It's not for gaming, it's just a graphics card to drive many displays....

It doesn't need a huge cooler or anything.