Hi /biz/, for a long time now I have been working on a trading system which utilizes webscrapping stock prices at up to 1-sec timeframe and implemented a lot since then in R and Python. Still I would like to keep an eye on all the code and programs running and possibly the automated trades the system is executing. I would like to have 3-4 monitors with minimum Full-HD resolution in portrait mode.
I know I need a lot of CPU-power and memory for running R and Python multiple times at high-frequency, all the machines I would like to buy (up to $2k budget just for the machine) come with fancy GPUs like the 980GTX but that feels like overkill. I don't play games at all but I understand that one needs a card with enough DVI/HDMI slots for 4 monitors, so what approximate class of Graphics cards would you recommend?
Pic related, that is how it would look like approximately.
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>>1157516
>using sublime text
>not using vim
never gonna make it
>>1157593
>preferences
You can probably code up a simple interface with info condescended into it.
Why would you need a single card capable of driving four monitors by itself? You could do that with two cards driving two monitors each just as easily.
Almost all cards support 4 displays, you just need a splitter. Buy any of the low end cards, 710, 7750, and two splitters for dvi or hdmi. More than one card would be inefficient at best.
>>1157611
thank you, yes I am just starting reading up on people more on more often who have older 7x cards running 4 monitors. seems possible, they even play games so it should suffice.
>>1157610
No, it's not like gaming where the cards need to link or even match brands. The other option is a "business graphics" card like this one with an Nvidia Quadro chipset which is designed to run 4 displays without the special whizbang stuff gaming needs:
http://www.amazon.com/PNY-DisplayPort-Profesional-Business-VCQ450NVS-X16-PB/dp/B001NIIFO6
>>1157619
thank you, never heard of the Quadro series before. Will look into it.