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I'd just go with a pair of pci (yeah, I know it sux but where is a m/b with 2 AGP slots) Radeon 9200 SE cards...or 1 AGP and 1 PCI as SDK mentioned...128 megs each and all you need is a couple of DVI to VGA dongles (unless you are using LCD displays) to be up and running. You can get them for $63.00 (US) at the link below.....
http://www.allstarshop.com/shop/prod...EKRLFHW3A44W2#
i have an nvidia gforce4 mx440se with 64 megs ddr and dual monitor support....works like a charm....it plays unreal great....not the best options but it will still look really bad a$$....if you want more specs PM me and il go dig out the box for it and tell you what i can
ATI Radeon 9800 Pro's run for ~$200
superb image quality and excellent gaming performance
Watch TV on a TV; four displays is overkill
If you're watching TV on this computer with a TV capture card...I don't know how much stress putting a couple of PCI video cards is going to add to that PCI bus.
I don't think you could run AGP Video Card + PCI Video Card + PCI Video Card + TV Capture Card. That would most likely kill all PCI bandwidth. And since even onboard Network Adapters use part of the PCI bandwidth (IIRC) I don't think you could be downloading files while watching TV and doing work. You'd probably have a fully saturated PCI bus pretty quickly.
You might be able to get away with just one PCI video card, but it wouldn't be able to be a dual headed one. Probably settle for either two or three displays total.
If you want to do gaming and the multi-monitor thing, look into either ATI's FireGL cards or look into nVIDIA's Quadro line of graphics cards. Matrox I think is geared towards 2D acceleration more than 3D, so even their best cards won't come close to the best of ATI or nVIDIA.