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Recommend Graphics card(s)

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I need some advice please:-

I'm looking to connect 4x 42inch Plasma or LCD TV's (yes, I said 4 :cool: ) to a single server class PC (8 gig ram, top spec PC).

The problem I have is I lack experience / knowledge of having done this before. Obvioulsy I'll need a few decent graphics cards to connect the screens to - this is where I need some help.

Can you please recommend the graphic(s) cards to use. Is it best to connect by DVI? One issue could be that 1 screen will need a 70m cable run to the server! Would this cause signal loss and can I get / make a DVI lead that long?

Any help you can offer would be greatly appreciated.

Budget isn't too much of an issue either :cool:

Thanks
 
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DVI would give you the crispest clearest signal but you may find that there are problems with the lengths of cable involved, from a quick search I can't find any exact figures but one place says 9.6m is the maximum length to remain within specification. What you may need in that situation is a DVI repeater or amplifier. VGA appears to have even less of a range.

I don't know if such a product exists but what about a wireless broadcasting system as that should make it possible?
 
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I've seen VGA cables up to 40 metres installed at a church. There was some ghosting which the chap got rid of somehow. May have been the quality of the cable.
 
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For the 70m run you maybe better off condiering a seperate PC and using a network link and a terminal services conection or somethin similar. Not sure if you'll get a cable that long and if you will what quality it will be.
 
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a1ex2001 said:
For the 70m run you maybe better off condiering a seperate PC and using a network link and a terminal services conection or somethin similar. Not sure if you'll get a cable that long and if you will what quality it will be.

That's exactly what I was thinking of doing but didn't want the inconvenience of having 3 client PC's just to operate 3 of the screens. This may indeed be the only option.

Availability of LAN ports isn't an issue it's just finding somewhere to hide the PC and still make it accessible if a reboot is needed!
 
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