Hi. I am looking at building a new rig with the intention of doing a system that can run 4 monitors. I browsed around the internet a bit and found out that dual PCIe x16 slots are the easiest way to go, but I'm finding a lot of motherboards aren't actually x16 x2? The motherboards I'm looking at are either x16 for one card and x8, x8 if you use two cards OR x16 for 1 and 16x, 4x for two. Will this work for quad display or do you need both pcie slots to do 16x? I'm looking at something like: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813138298 (Notice "2 (x16, x4)" in the description). I mostly just plan on using my computer for gaming and watching netflix and that jazz. So I am assuming a mobo that can do 2 pcie 16x, 4x will be just fine since I can just use the 16x card to play my games and the 4x to run my other two monitors, but I don't want to make any bad assumption and not have my system work the way I want. Anyways, sorry for such a long first post! Any input is much appreciated. Thanks!
You can still use up to 4 monitors, regardless of the speed. What is your budget like? If you want to take advantage of the x16 speeds using SLI, look into this board.
