How to connect a 4 screens with Samsung Ativ Book 8 (NP880Z5E)

What is the best way to connect my 4 screens 24" with HD resolution 1920x1080 to Samsung Ativ Book 8 (NP880Z5-X01UK with AMD 8870m)? What kind of adapter do I need? Does 8870m will help me to run smoothly charting software from financial markets?
Thanks for your help.

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I don't know if it is feasible. Notebookcheck says

They don't say what is the limit when Enduro is enabled, but I expect it would be same as the number of monitors supported by the Intel GPU, which is three.

John

 

@ustrader:

Most of the Samsung models have traditionally been limited to two simultaneous monitors (two external or one external and one internal) for the reasons described in the thread linked below (limitations in how the HD4000 was been implemented, not limitations in the HD4000 itself). The exception was the 7GC which was specifically designed to support three simultaneous monitors (internal plus HDMI, DisplayPort and/or VGA).

http://forum.notebookreview.com/samsung/722171-series-7-770-z7e-video-questions.html

However, I have seen hints from 2013 Series 7 / Ativ Book 8 users that Samsung improved that in these models. Check posts here and here. Some had problems driving 2560x1440 at full refresh rate, while others seemed to have gotten it working.

But even if you manage to get that working, it still only gives you three monitors. For a fourth, I believe you need an external USB Graphics Card. I have no experience with those myself, you'll have to Google it. But I know that many traders use them.

Which platform do you use?

 

Thanks

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I found that usb 3.0 is very popular for connection external monitors and ativ book 8 has two of them. On a YouTube is a video where they connected 7 external monitors via usb 3.0 (hp laptop). They used usb 3.0 splitter and "pluggable" adapter usb3.0/hdmi/dvi. I'm just wondering what is a differences in a speed usb 3.0 and vga or hdmi. I'm going to run Think or Swing platform and i wanna try Fusion as well.

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That makes sense. Even though USB3 isn't as fast as the PCI Express used for the discrete AMD or the internal bus used for the HD4000, it is plenty fast for the GDI or DirectX updates required for a charting platform. Even USB2 is fast enough for that. The actual screen image will be generated inside that USB adapter which drives the screen through HDMI or DVI.

Charting platforms are not that demanding in terms of graphics or CPU performance. Even with dozens of live charts on four monitors, you'll have power to spare. If you can drive three monitors directly from the laptop, you only need one through USB.

Think or Swim is great for options, but a bit meager for charting (in my opinion). It's a massively sophisticated options pricing calculator with charting added to it. One great feature is its historical charting: The last few years they've stored every bid/ask/trade tick of all instruments, allowing TOS to display historical greeks and volatility for options. Other platforms cannot do that because they only save trade ticks and discard options data after expiration.

I don't have experience with Fusion, but like TOS I believe it's Java based.

I personally prefer TradeStation for charting, and for stocks and futures trading (I use TOS for options). TS is an older and somewhat convoluted platform. But it's native Windows (some of it .NET unfortunately) making it fast compared to TOS. You won't notice the speed difference with just a few windows, but once you fill up those four screens, I suspect you may. TS is enormously customizable, and if you can get past its steep learning curve, you can completely tailor it down to the most minute details.

I have keyboard shortcuts for everything in TS, whereas TOS requires me to use the mouse for everything. I believe Tom Sosnoff (the father of TOS) is a Mac guy, which may explain that.

Both TOS and TS allow you to write custom indicators or edit the built-in ones. I assume Fusion must be the same in this regard.

Let us know how it works out.

Edit: Yeah, yeah, I know. I went a bit off topic there. Again