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Quad Monitor Upgrade Options

Assessing the information provided by your answers you have a few options available to you in your quest to support quad monitors on your current computer:

Install Dedicated Quad Graphics Card

You can purchase a 'quad head' graphics card which can be installed into your computer to give you the ability to output to up to 4 different screens from the one card.

The benefits of this solution are that upgrading and installation is no more difficult than for any standard graphics card, however 'quad head' cards usually prove much more expensive than other graphics cards.

If you decide to go down this route we recommend the nVidia NVS 440 graphics cards which are available from a few different vendors. You should be looking to pay around £350 for the card alone.

Install 2 New Graphics Cards

Depending on your specific computer you may be able to support two internal graphics cards which in turn could each support two separate monitors. You would need two new cards and to remove the current one from your system.

The downside of this option is that it is often unclear if you have the right expansion ports inside your computer for an additional graphics card, and if you do you must ensure the cards are compatible with each other. The general rule is that you should stick to the same 'type' of card, i.e. two nVidia GeForce cards or two ATI cards.

nVidia SLI Configuration

A final piece of information for people who are looking to build their own system is that the nVidia SLI setup allows you to switch the output from one monitor to four separate ones in the software control panel.

This is useful to know when buying components, nVidia SLI setups are much easier to identify as they are generally labelled as such. This in turn gives you the confidence of knowing that the end solution will support the number of monitors you desire.