How many Monitors on Mac Pro 2.1?

Hello and Merry Christmas everyone!!
I'm curious to know what is the most number of monitors/displays anyone has ever been able to run on their Mac Pro 2.1?
Right now I'm running 4, but am curious if you can go higher?
Thanks!!

You can drive nine displays using the internal PCI-e slots.
One ATI Radeon HD 5770 (three displays)
<http://store.apple.com/us/product/MC742ZM/A/ati-radeon-hd-5770-graphics-upgrade- kit-for-mac-pro-mid-2010>
and three Nvidia GeForce GT 120 (two displays per card)
<http://www.amazon.com/Nvidia-GeForce-120-Graphics-Upgrade/dp/B001V3DZD4>
For more cards you can use a PCIe Expander.
<http://www.magma.com/catalog/basic-pcie-expansion>
If you don't care about performance you can add four more displays via USB
<http://www.newertech.com/products/viddu2dvia.php>

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