Catastrophic Display Problems on Mac Pro 6,1

Hello everyone,
I have really frustrating problem with my new MacPro Late 2013. It's the 3,7 GHz Xeon E5, 12GB ECC RAM, Dual D300, 256GB SSD.
The thing is, I want to use more than one monitor. So I have two BenQ 21,5'' 1080p monitors, an Iiyama 26'' ProLite E2607WSD 1920x1200 and a 55'' Sony LED TV (1080p).
I just want to use the two BenQs but this is not possible! When I plug them in and start the Mac it won't come up. So I get on one monitor white, or sometimes colored stripes formed in about 20 "boxes". On the other monitor I got the Apple Logo from the boot screen and a bit of the Log-In Screen. Actually the whole systems crashes when turning from the boot to the log-in screen. In fact, I am not able to use the computer. It freezes completely. I just can plug out the second monitor and restart the whole thing. With one monitor, it doesnt matter which, is it working. It also doesnt matter which monitors are plugged in (TV or the 26''). On all the screens comes the same issue. The interesting thing is that it was working on OS X 10.9.2. Since the update to 10.9.4 everything is messed up! The Apple Care Support is not able to do anything about it which is like a joke at a 3.000 EUR machine... However the displays are connected via HDMI and the original Apple DVI to Thunderbolt Adapter. I've tried to connect both monitors via two DVI->Thunderbolt or VGA->Thunderbolt which doesnt effect anything.
I changed the computer because I thought the hardware got an issue. The fact is, the second MacPro features the exact same problem.
I have no backups to restore 10.9.2, I also made several new clean installations of 10.9.4.
In this condition the computer is more or less not useable.
I hope someone has a solution for that problem.
Thank You

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