Many VGA monitors?

1. 2018-01-20 at 8:47 PM UTC

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   The Self Taught Man Black Hole
   The old 26" TV which I had on DVI from my Linux computer has broken. I'd like to make some sort of video wall with about 12 ( 3x4 ) small cheap VGA monitors I can probably get cheap used.
   
   My graphics card is a 5450 with 1 DVI, 1 HDMI and 1 VGA port. Anyone have any advice on how I could go about this?
   
   
   
   I like the whole individual monitor look.
2. 2018-01-20 at 8:51 PM UTC

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   benny vader YELLOW GHOST

   Originally posted by Issue313 of video wall with about 12 ( 3x4 )

   
   not 16:9.
3. 2018-01-20 at 8:57 PM UTC

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   The Self Taught Man Black Hole

   Originally posted by benny vader not 16:9.

   
   144 monitors, each using 50 watts would be 7.2 killowatts. It'd get pretty warm.
4. 2018-01-20 at 9:15 PM UTC

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   benny vader YELLOW GHOST

   Originally posted by Issue313 144 monitors, each using 50 watts would be 7.2 killowatts. It'd get pretty warm.

   
   you wont need heating then.
5. 2018-01-20 at 9:41 PM UTC

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   Lanny Bird of Courage
   I looked into something like this years ago but didn’t find anything affordable. Amd has some proprietary protocol on their cards for 8 or 16 way splitting (I forget which) but it’s not vga. Otherwise you need a specialized video card(s) with N vga outputs and they were all damn expensive when I looked.
6. 2018-01-20 at 10:40 PM UTC

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   A College Professor victim of incest [your moreover breastless limestone]
   
7. 2018-01-21 at 1:38 AM UTC

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   aldra JIDF Controlled Opposition
   http://www.piwall.co.uk/information/6-features-and-benefits
   
   this is probably your cheapest option - see if you can get a bulk lot of second-gen raspis for cheap
8. 2018-01-21 at 2:06 PM UTC

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   Grimace motherfucker [my enumerable hindi guideword]
   AMD Radeon 5450 HD? Sorry, for what you want to do with it, it's not feasible. That is an extreme low-end card. Get an RX550 for $80 and widen your doors to whatever the fuck you wanna do, assuming your CPU isn't bottlenecking you. Basically, while you might be able to tweak your way into doing what you want, to do it right, you need a better GPU.
9. 2018-01-21 at 2:18 PM UTC

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   Grimace motherfucker [my enumerable hindi guideword]
   here is the lowest one featuring the RX550 chipset.
10. 2018-01-21 at 4:27 PM UTC

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    aldra JIDF Controlled Opposition
    He wants 12 screens, no consumer model has that many inputs
11. 2018-01-21 at 4:42 PM UTC

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    Grimace motherfucker [my enumerable hindi guideword]

    Originally posted by aldra He wants 12 screens, no consumer model has that many inputs

    
    ah, thats true. I totally disregarded that. He could clone over to several displays (what is done on Display 1 is done on the others, too) by daisy-chaining splitters. Really shit way to do it.
12. 2018-01-21 at 5:04 PM UTC

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    bling bling Dark Matter
    buy a real big few and tap a grid over it