Inexpensive video wall for 8 monitors (spoiler - NVidia)

Video wall assembled on the knees for 8 monitors by means of NVidia Quadro P620
Video wall assembled on the knees for 8 monitors by means of NVidia Quadro P620

This is my first post on Habré, please do not judge strictly.





Why did I even start writing this post? Because on the Internet there are a lot of offers for the sale, installation, setting up of video walls at some cosmic, exorbitant prices, but the necessary technical information is not enough and it is necessary to search for it. So to the point.





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