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As budged 6 monitors solution i would buy a Z68 Mainboard with 2 PCIe slots and use the Sandy Bridge Onboard dual outputs and two Nvidia Quaddro NVS 300 graphic cards.
Cheapest solution with full function in my opinion.
For those wanting 5 displays and not playing games. You don't want to occupy 2 slots. Only for trading. Not wanting to pay big prices for a gaming card.
It's very easy to over build your trading workstation. If you're not using virtual machines and running multiple copies of NT, your computing needs are very straight forward. One of my favorite workstations is as follows:
CPU - Intel I7 2600K - overclocked to 4.2 GHZ
Motherboard - GIGABYTE GA-Z68MX-UD2HB3 micro ATX, enough SATA III 6 GB/s, PCIE 2, 1 gb NIC, and it cost me $59!
memory - Crucial 16 GB - don't really need more than 8 GB with NT
SSD - OCZ Vertex 3 Max IOPS 240GB SATA 6Gb/s
video - AMD ATI FirePro 2460 for quad monitor support.
Fits in an old HP micro ATX case with the original HP 300 watt supply.
This is still one of my favorite workstations and the one I use all the time for development. It's simple, fast, QUIET, reliable, and dependable. A quick check of Amazon prices indicates it would take less than $1200 to build it today.
CPU:intel core i7 3820 oem
artic cooling freezer cpu fan
Hard Drive: crucial ssd 128 gb m4
Data Hard Drive:seagate 1tb sata iii
Motherboard: asus pro p9x79
Kingston Hyper X Blu Serie memory 16 gb
Video Card: ati hd 5870 video card 2 gb Eyefinity
Corsair 850W psu
These seem like reasonably priced cards with OK business non-3D performance, giving 4 monitor connections per PCI-E slot. Including pics, for when the links die. (CAD prices, sites for the cards)
(Note the Galaxy 560 will treat 3 of your monitors as one big desktop, as opposed to individual screens, ie., when you maximize a window, it should spread across all 3 screens with that card)
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