Hey Jow Forums,
I currently have 3 monitors, all of them plugged into the ports in pic related.
Now I've been thinking of upping it to 4 monitors (I do tons of multitasking), or even 5, or 6.
The new monitors I will be using for this will most likely all use DisplayPort.
Is there any way to achieve this at all? Maybe USB can be used or something? I've got USB-C in case that matters.
If there's some sort of adapter that can achieve this, then that'll do, I just want to avoid spending shittons of money on new GPUs.
Thanks.
Multiple Monitors
Aaron Fisher
Landon Carter
Do you have motherboard video ports?
Jaxon Taylor
No, unfortunately.
Is there absolutely no other way?
I find it odd that the amount of monitors one can connect to their machine is so arbitrarily limited just by the amount of ports on your GPU/motherboard, cuz usually it's just 3-4 ports.
What if someone wants to connect more than that? Do they really have to buy a set of new GPUs just to do that?
Can USB not be used for this at all? I think I've heard something like that somewhere.
Nathan Perry
Not sure, im sure there's a PCI answer for you, at the very least i think you can just add an old passively cooled GPU for some more cheap ports.
Or maybe an old Nvidia card and get a little PhysX going too.
Nathaniel Hernandez
>his video card doesn't have at least 4 ports
Weak.
Just buy a second video card, whatever is cheapest on ebay or the like, and use it as port bitch
Ayden Cox
You have a dual-link DVI port there but whether your card can drive two separate outputs through it depends on the card specs. RTFM.
Alexander Wood
Not OP.
Can Display Port be daisy-chained?
Owen Bennett
If all the devices in the chain support it, yes.
Brody Foster
Get a old Nvidia Quadro-Card, 100 to 150 will get you up to 4 Displayports. Check out ebay or comparable sites.
Josiah Gonzalez
(op here)
What do you guys think about pic related?
Some random adapter I found on Amazon, apparently it does USB-C --> DisplayPort.
Would this work? Does anybody have any experience with this?
Okay, let's say I do end up buying a new, very cheap GPU as a port-bitch.
If, for example, I'm playing a video game or something like that on one of the monitors that connects to my port-bitch GPU, will it still be using my main GPU to do the actual rendering and everything, or will it use the shitty port-bitch GPU for rendering and therefore completely ruin my FPS?
Do you happen to know?
I really do appreciate all the help and suggestions so far, thanks a lot.