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Old November 1st 19, 12:37 PM posted to alt.comp.os.windows-10
Jean Fredette
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Default Does Windows 10 with NVidia GeForce 210 support 3 monitors

Win19 desktop settings will show the 3 monitors 1, 2, & 3.
But so far Win10 will only let 2 monitors work at any one time.
It seems I can change to any two monitors but not all three.

Is a setup issue or a fundamental limitation?

Display 1 is connected by a HDMI cable.
Display 2 is connected by a VGA cable.
Display 3 is connected by a DVI cable.

Advanced Settings
Display 1 is 1680x1050, 59Hz, 8bit, RGB, SDR.
Display 2 is 1680x1050, 59Hz, 8bit, RGB, SDR.
Display 3 is 1280x1024, 60Hz, 8bit, RGB, SDR.
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Old November 1st 19, 12:46 PM posted to alt.comp.os.windows-10
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Default Does Windows 10 with NVidia GeForce 210 support 3 monitors

Jean Fredette posted:

Display 1 is connected by a HDMI cable.
Display 2 is connected by a VGA cable.
Display 3 is connected by a DVI cable.

Advanced Settings
Display 1 is 1680x1050, 59Hz, 8bit, RGB, SDR.
Display 2 is 1680x1050, 59Hz, 8bit, RGB, SDR.
Display 3 is 1280x1024, 60Hz, 8bit, RGB, SDR.


Windows 10, not Win19.
And I mixed up the display numbers & resolution.
(Windows doesn't show display numbers in the order on my desk!)

Display 1 is HDMI 1920x1090 60Hz 8-bit RGB SDR.
Display 2 is DVI 1680x1050 59Hz 8-bit RGB SDR.
Display 3 is VGA 2280x1024 60Hz 8-bit RGB SDR.

Does Windows 10 with NVidia GeForce 210 support 3 monitors
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Old November 1st 19, 08:16 PM posted to alt.comp.os.windows-10
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Jean Fredette wrote:
Jean Fredette posted:

Display 1 is connected by a HDMI cable.
Display 2 is connected by a VGA cable.
Display 3 is connected by a DVI cable.

Advanced Settings
Display 1 is 1680x1050, 59Hz, 8bit, RGB, SDR.
Display 2 is 1680x1050, 59Hz, 8bit, RGB, SDR.
Display 3 is 1280x1024, 60Hz, 8bit, RGB, SDR.


Windows 10, not Win19.
And I mixed up the display numbers & resolution.
(Windows doesn't show display numbers in the order on my desk!)

Display 1 is HDMI 1920x1090 60Hz 8-bit RGB SDR.
Display 2 is DVI 1680x1050 59Hz 8-bit RGB SDR.
Display 3 is VGA 2280x1024 60Hz 8-bit RGB SDR.

Does Windows 10 with NVidia GeForce 210 support 3 monitors


Windows can readily support several monitors. I would check the card. Often
they can't drive all outputs simultaneously.

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Old November 2nd 19, 01:41 PM posted to alt.comp.os.windows-10
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Default Does Windows 10 with NVidia GeForce 210 support 3 monitors

Jean Fredette wrote:
Jean Fredette posted:

Display 1 is connected by a HDMI cable.
Display 2 is connected by a VGA cable.
Display 3 is connected by a DVI cable.

Advanced Settings
Display 1 is 1680x1050, 59Hz, 8bit, RGB, SDR.
Display 2 is 1680x1050, 59Hz, 8bit, RGB, SDR.
Display 3 is 1280x1024, 60Hz, 8bit, RGB, SDR.


Windows 10, not Win19.
And I mixed up the display numbers & resolution.
(Windows doesn't show display numbers in the order on my desk!)

Display 1 is HDMI 1920x1090 60Hz 8-bit RGB SDR.
Display 2 is DVI 1680x1050 59Hz 8-bit RGB SDR.
Display 3 is VGA 2280x1024 60Hz 8-bit RGB SDR.

Does Windows 10 with NVidia GeForce 210 support 3 monitors


The OS can tell you, but by then it's too late
to avoid purchasing the monitor.

Mine put up a warning here, when I tried to add the
third monitor to my 7900GT. That card was selected
in the hope that being old enough, it would display
behaviors consistent with its "dual pipe, three
connector" design. I tested under Windows 10.

https://i.postimg.cc/kXbxqBdw/video-...its-limits.gif

NVidia has a web page with a list of cards that support
Surround, but I suspect the list isn't regularly maintained
and might be missing the latest cards offered for sale.
The code on the web page is also busted. The Geforce210
is "too low of a SKU" to be on the list. Perhaps
a Geforce260 has Surround.

Surround allows one display pipe on the card, to drive
three monitors, as long as the monitors all use the
same resolution setting.

_____ Display-pipe ____ mon+mon+mon [The NVidia equivalent
| to AMD Eyefinity]
video_card ---+
|_____ Display-pipe ____ mon+mon+mon

+--+--+--+ Each mon has
| | | | same resolution
+--+--+--+ setting.

You can see this sometimes, if adding monitors and
the "default" res for one monitor is set the same
as the monitor that was detected before it. The
driver has all sorts of fun behaviors too numerous
to document. (Such as the Windows resolution dialog
doing the monitor detection, while the NVidia control
panel refuses to recognize hot-plug events in real time.)

It's really just one giant kludge, intended to cause
hair loss.

We know:

1) The Geforce210 is newer than my card (7900GT). Great.
2) The Geforce210 is not in the list of "Surround-capable" video cards.
3) The newer cards *might* be divorcing themselves from
"dual Display Pipe", because the Device Manager no longer
shows two entries per video card. But who can be sure.
Maybe showing one entry is just a tiny difference caused
by the driver change from wdm to xddm to wddm. Who really
knows unless they document stuff like this...

And the funny part is, some of the newer Intel chipsets which
use the GPU inside the CPU package for their graphics, they
support three monitors (without surround and presumably
with the usual Dual Pipe implementation). So what the hell
is Intel doing ? Is the Intel implementation different
than NVidia/AMD ? Again, who can say. I tried to trace that
one down, and gave up after half a dozen less-than-helpful
Intel web pages. So Intel seems to know how to do that,
and with less theatrics than the other two companies.
But I haven't found the breadcrumbs of how it works.
And whether it actually requires two of the monitors
to be using the same resolution as one another.

+--+ +----+----+ [Three monitors on Intel
| | | | | integrated GPU???]
+--+ | | |
+----+----+ [This is my unconfirmed guess]

Paul
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Old November 5th 19, 03:29 PM posted to alt.comp.os.windows-10
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Default Does Windows 10 with NVidia GeForce 210 support 3 monitors

Paul posted:

1) The Geforce210 is newer than my card (7900GT). Great.
2) The Geforce210 is not in the list of "Surround-capable" video cards.


Thank you for that i.postimg.cc saying 'This GPU supports up to 2 displays'
and for the Intel information.

The Nvidia icon in the task bar said it was version 341.74 and
clicking on the 'driver update' brought up this web page.
https://www.geforce.com/drivers/resu...4/nvidiaupdate
That downloaded 342.01-desktop-win8-win7-winvista-64bit-international.exe
https://us.download.nvidia.com/Windo...ernational.exe
Which I installed and rebooted.

Following your lead I then re-ran the NVIDIA control panel client
C:\Program Files\NVIDIA Corporation\Control Panel Client\nvcplui.exe
And selected under Display to 'Set up multiple displays'
But when I clicked on the third display I got the same warning you did.
'This GPU supports up to 2 displays.'
https://i.postimg.cc/3Nyhdhzy/Screenshot-2895.jpg

Windows shows 3 displays but only any two will work so far.
https://i.postimg.cc/mgCQ7sBH/Screenshot-2894.jpg

The Nvidia Geforce 210 has DVI, HDMI & VGA connectors.
The AMD Phenom II motherboard also has DVI & VGA connectors.
Maybe I can move the third monitor to the motherboard?
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Old November 5th 19, 08:11 PM posted to alt.comp.os.windows-10
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Default Does Windows 10 with NVidia GeForce 210 support 3 monitors

Jean Fredette wrote:
Paul posted:

1) The Geforce210 is newer than my card (7900GT). Great.
2) The Geforce210 is not in the list of "Surround-capable" video cards.


Thank you for that i.postimg.cc saying 'This GPU supports up to 2 displays'
and for the Intel information.

The Nvidia icon in the task bar said it was version 341.74 and
clicking on the 'driver update' brought up this web page.
https://www.geforce.com/drivers/resu...4/nvidiaupdate
That downloaded 342.01-desktop-win8-win7-winvista-64bit-international.exe
https://us.download.nvidia.com/Windo...ernational.exe
Which I installed and rebooted.

Following your lead I then re-ran the NVIDIA control panel client
C:\Program Files\NVIDIA Corporation\Control Panel Client\nvcplui.exe
And selected under Display to 'Set up multiple displays'
But when I clicked on the third display I got the same warning you did.
'This GPU supports up to 2 displays.'
https://i.postimg.cc/3Nyhdhzy/Screenshot-2895.jpg

Windows shows 3 displays but only any two will work so far.
https://i.postimg.cc/mgCQ7sBH/Screenshot-2894.jpg

The Nvidia Geforce 210 has DVI, HDMI & VGA connectors.
The AMD Phenom II motherboard also has DVI & VGA connectors.
Maybe I can move the third monitor to the motherboard?


You can try.

At first, plugging in a video card would auto-disable
the chipset GPU.

Then an era came along, where you could run both.
Which would be my first response, that "yes, it'll
work for you".

But I was reading an Intel GPU (inside CPU) article
the other day, which claimed it "auto-disables" when
a video card is plugged in. And I'm going "no way,
is this 1980 or something?".

Now either that article was referring to hardware
in the AGP era, or, it's a new development that
they decided to do it that way again.

In the AGP era, I heard mumbling that "there can only
be one AGP GART". That's a remapper table that fetches
textures for games from disparate parts of main memory
and makes them look like "one large table". In the
PCI Express era, there is some equivalent function,
but it offers the freedom of having more than
one table as far as I know. So that shouldn't be
the reason for this "auto-disables" thing.

The BIOS sometimes has a "priority setting", where
you can tell the BIOS to "look for a video card
first" as a hint as to which monitor should have
the BIOS display on it. But the OS should have the
freedom to do what it wants, via the Display
control panel, in terms of repositioning N displays
horizontally or vertically. Or in the case of
monitors with the little ball bearing in the back,
even auto-detecting the rotation of the monitor
to the portrait position.

All I can tell you, is "give it a try", as I suspect
the era is right for it to work. No guarantees though,
because this crap is "like the weather, never twice the
same".

Paul
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Old November 5th 19, 09:44 PM posted to alt.comp.os.windows-10
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Default Does Windows 10 with NVidia GeForce 210 support 3 monitors

On 11/1/2019 4:37 AM, Jean Fredette wrote:
Win19 desktop settings will show the 3 monitors 1, 2, & 3.
But so far Win10 will only let 2 monitors work at any one time.
It seems I can change to any two monitors but not all three.

Is a setup issue or a fundamental limitation?

Display 1 is connected by a HDMI cable.
Display 2 is connected by a VGA cable.
Display 3 is connected by a DVI cable.

Advanced Settings
Display 1 is 1680x1050, 59Hz, 8bit, RGB, SDR.
Display 2 is 1680x1050, 59Hz, 8bit, RGB, SDR.
Display 3 is 1280x1024, 60Hz, 8bit, RGB, SDR.




All recent versions of Windows supports 9 (or is it 10?) monitors. The
issue is not with Windows.

How many monitors your computer can support depends on what video cards
(note the plural "cards"--you can have more than one) you have installed
and whether your motherboard can also support a monitor.

Most video cards support either one or two monitors, so unless you have
one that supports more or have a motherboard that supports one, you are
limited to the number of video cards your video card supports.

The NVidia GeForce 210 s apparently has three video ports but only
supports two monitors at a time. So unless your motherboard can also
support a monitor, the only way for you to run three monitors is to buy
and install a second video card.



--
Ken
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Old November 5th 19, 11:57 PM posted to alt.comp.os.windows-10
Jean Fredette
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Default Does Windows 10 with NVidia GeForce 210 support 3 monitors

Ken Blake posted:

On 11/1/2019 4:37 AM, Jean Fredette wrote:
Win19 desktop settings will show the 3 monitors 1, 2, & 3.
But so far Win10 will only let 2 monitors work at any one time.
It seems I can change to any two monitors but not all three.

Is a setup issue or a fundamental limitation?

Display 1 is connected by a HDMI cable.
Display 2 is connected by a VGA cable.
Display 3 is connected by a DVI cable.

Advanced Settings
Display 1 is 1680x1050, 59Hz, 8bit, RGB, SDR.
Display 2 is 1680x1050, 59Hz, 8bit, RGB, SDR.
Display 3 is 1280x1024, 60Hz, 8bit, RGB, SDR.




All recent versions of Windows supports 9 (or is it 10?) monitors. The
issue is not with Windows.

How many monitors your computer can support depends on what video cards
(note the plural "cards"--you can have more than one) you have installed
and whether your motherboard can also support a monitor.

Most video cards support either one or two monitors, so unless you have
one that supports more or have a motherboard that supports one, you are
limited to the number of video cards your video card supports.

The NVidia GeForce 210 s apparently has three video ports but only
supports two monitors at a time. So unless your motherboard can also
support a monitor, the only way for you to run three monitors is to buy
and install a second video card.


I removed the VGA from the Nvidia GeForce 210 and plugged that cable into
the AMD motherboard. The instant I removed the VGA from the Nvidia card,
the Windows 10 Settings Display disappeared the third adaptor so Windows
"knows" that the third display exists.

Plugging that third VGA into the AMD motherboard, which has VGA and DVI,
didn't do anything yet. It did not show up as a third display in the Win10
settings either.

Maybe there's a switch somewhere to flip?
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Old November 6th 19, 01:00 AM posted to alt.comp.os.windows-10
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Default Does Windows 10 with NVidia GeForce 210 support 3 monitors

On Tue, 5 Nov 2019 16:57:06 -0600, Jean Fredette
wrote:

Ken Blake posted:

On 11/1/2019 4:37 AM, Jean Fredette wrote:
Win19 desktop settings will show the 3 monitors 1, 2, & 3.
But so far Win10 will only let 2 monitors work at any one time.
It seems I can change to any two monitors but not all three.

Is a setup issue or a fundamental limitation?

Display 1 is connected by a HDMI cable.
Display 2 is connected by a VGA cable.
Display 3 is connected by a DVI cable.

Advanced Settings
Display 1 is 1680x1050, 59Hz, 8bit, RGB, SDR.
Display 2 is 1680x1050, 59Hz, 8bit, RGB, SDR.
Display 3 is 1280x1024, 60Hz, 8bit, RGB, SDR.




All recent versions of Windows supports 9 (or is it 10?) monitors. The
issue is not with Windows.

How many monitors your computer can support depends on what video cards
(note the plural "cards"--you can have more than one) you have installed
and whether your motherboard can also support a monitor.

Most video cards support either one or two monitors, so unless you have
one that supports more or have a motherboard that supports one, you are
limited to the number of video cards your video card supports.

The NVidia GeForce 210 s apparently has three video ports but only
supports two monitors at a time. So unless your motherboard can also
support a monitor, the only way for you to run three monitors is to buy
and install a second video card.


I removed the VGA from the Nvidia GeForce 210 and plugged that cable into
the AMD motherboard. The instant I removed the VGA from the Nvidia card,
the Windows 10 Settings Display disappeared the third adaptor so Windows
"knows" that the third display exists.

Plugging that third VGA into the AMD motherboard, which has VGA and DVI,
didn't do anything yet. It did not show up as a third display in the Win10
settings either.

Maybe there's a switch somewhere to flip?


Does your CPU include a GPU? Not all of them do, and if there's no GPU then
it doesn't do you any good to have video connectors on the motherboard.

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Old November 6th 19, 06:43 AM posted to alt.comp.os.windows-10
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Default Does Windows 10 with NVidia GeForce 210 support 3 monitors

Char Jackson wrote:
On Tue, 5 Nov 2019 16:57:06 -0600, Jean Fredette
wrote:

Ken Blake posted:

On 11/1/2019 4:37 AM, Jean Fredette wrote:
Win19 desktop settings will show the 3 monitors 1, 2, & 3.
But so far Win10 will only let 2 monitors work at any one time.
It seems I can change to any two monitors but not all three.

Is a setup issue or a fundamental limitation?

Display 1 is connected by a HDMI cable.
Display 2 is connected by a VGA cable.
Display 3 is connected by a DVI cable.

Advanced Settings
Display 1 is 1680x1050, 59Hz, 8bit, RGB, SDR.
Display 2 is 1680x1050, 59Hz, 8bit, RGB, SDR.
Display 3 is 1280x1024, 60Hz, 8bit, RGB, SDR.


All recent versions of Windows supports 9 (or is it 10?) monitors. The
issue is not with Windows.

How many monitors your computer can support depends on what video cards
(note the plural "cards"--you can have more than one) you have installed
and whether your motherboard can also support a monitor.

Most video cards support either one or two monitors, so unless you have
one that supports more or have a motherboard that supports one, you are
limited to the number of video cards your video card supports.

The NVidia GeForce 210 s apparently has three video ports but only
supports two monitors at a time. So unless your motherboard can also
support a monitor, the only way for you to run three monitors is to buy
and install a second video card.

I removed the VGA from the Nvidia GeForce 210 and plugged that cable into
the AMD motherboard. The instant I removed the VGA from the Nvidia card,
the Windows 10 Settings Display disappeared the third adaptor so Windows
"knows" that the third display exists.

Plugging that third VGA into the AMD motherboard, which has VGA and DVI,
didn't do anything yet. It did not show up as a third display in the Win10
settings either.

Maybe there's a switch somewhere to flip?


Does your CPU include a GPU? Not all of them do, and if there's no GPU then
it doesn't do you any good to have video connectors on the motherboard.


With a Phenom II, that's not an APU, so the Northbridge
has the GPU inside it. The Phenom II likely has six cores,
which are split (for power management), into two
1x3 groups. That's a lot of silicon, leaving little
space to be adding a GPU.

An example of a chipset, might be a 785G or a 780G.
The 785G is a better one. Support-wise, they'd both be
orphans now, but the 785G was better hardware (UVD2?).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_o...ocessing_units

The article here, compares a couple chipsets, and there is
a 785G block diagram.

https://www.extremeoverclocking.com/...RO_USB3_2.html

On the AMD chipset (where CPU is a "pure" CPU), the GPU
in the Northbridge has both the shaders, as well as the
lookup table for the 400MHz bandwidth VGA outputs.

Whereas on the combo Intel CPU/GPU chips, the chipset
still has the final output stage driving the connectors.
If you buy a socket-compatible Intel CPU which happens
to have no GPU in it, the Northbridge is still sitting
there with VGA/DVI/HDMI to drive, but there are no signals
coming from the CPU package to make it work. And then you
plug in a video card, to be able to use the machine.

*******

The motherboard user manuals, don't usually do a good
job of accurately describing the options. There have
been mistakes in that section of the manual (specifically,
about how many monitors work, or if you use the DVI-I
connector, the VGA stops working, and all sorts of
other stupid ****).

Paul
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Old November 6th 19, 03:43 PM posted to alt.comp.os.windows-10
Jean Fredette
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Paul posted:

Char Jackson wrote:
On Tue, 5 Nov 2019 16:57:06 -0600, Jean Fredette
wrote:

Ken Blake posted:

On 11/1/2019 4:37 AM, Jean Fredette wrote:
Win19 desktop settings will show the 3 monitors 1, 2, & 3.
But so far Win10 will only let 2 monitors work at any one time.
It seems I can change to any two monitors but not all three.

Is a setup issue or a fundamental limitation?

Display 1 is connected by a HDMI cable.
Display 2 is connected by a VGA cable.
Display 3 is connected by a DVI cable.

Advanced Settings
Display 1 is 1680x1050, 59Hz, 8bit, RGB, SDR.
Display 2 is 1680x1050, 59Hz, 8bit, RGB, SDR.
Display 3 is 1280x1024, 60Hz, 8bit, RGB, SDR.


All recent versions of Windows supports 9 (or is it 10?) monitors. The
issue is not with Windows.

How many monitors your computer can support depends on what video cards
(note the plural "cards"--you can have more than one) you have installed
and whether your motherboard can also support a monitor.

Most video cards support either one or two monitors, so unless you have
one that supports more or have a motherboard that supports one, you are
limited to the number of video cards your video card supports.

The NVidia GeForce 210 s apparently has three video ports but only
supports two monitors at a time. So unless your motherboard can also
support a monitor, the only way for you to run three monitors is to buy
and install a second video card.
I removed the VGA from the Nvidia GeForce 210 and plugged that cable into
the AMD motherboard. The instant I removed the VGA from the Nvidia card,
the Windows 10 Settings Display disappeared the third adaptor so Windows
"knows" that the third display exists.

Plugging that third VGA into the AMD motherboard, which has VGA and DVI,
didn't do anything yet. It did not show up as a third display in the Win10
settings either.

Maybe there's a switch somewhere to flip?


Does your CPU include a GPU? Not all of them do, and if there's no GPU then
it doesn't do you any good to have video connectors on the motherboard.


With a Phenom II, that's not an APU, so the Northbridge
has the GPU inside it. The Phenom II likely has six cores,
which are split (for power management), into two
1x3 groups. That's a lot of silicon, leaving little
space to be adding a GPU.

An example of a chipset, might be a 785G or a 780G.
The 785G is a better one. Support-wise, they'd both be
orphans now, but the 785G was better hardware (UVD2?).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_o...ocessing_units

The article here, compares a couple chipsets, and there is
a 785G block diagram.

https://www.extremeoverclocking.com/...RO_USB3_2.html

On the AMD chipset (where CPU is a "pure" CPU), the GPU
in the Northbridge has both the shaders, as well as the
lookup table for the 400MHz bandwidth VGA outputs.

Whereas on the combo Intel CPU/GPU chips, the chipset
still has the final output stage driving the connectors.
If you buy a socket-compatible Intel CPU which happens
to have no GPU in it, the Northbridge is still sitting
there with VGA/DVI/HDMI to drive, but there are no signals
coming from the CPU package to make it work. And then you
plug in a video card, to be able to use the machine.

*******

The motherboard user manuals, don't usually do a good
job of accurately describing the options. There have
been mistakes in that section of the manual (specifically,
about how many monitors work, or if you use the DVI-I
connector, the VGA stops working, and all sorts of
other stupid ****).

Paul


Its the AMD Phenom II X4 810
I'm going to give up on trying to get 3 monitors to work.
Thank you for explaining why it will never work.
Even though there are 5 graphics connectors on the desktop.
I wonder if a splitter exists?
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Old November 6th 19, 09:00 PM posted to alt.comp.os.windows-10
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Jean Fredette wrote:


Its the AMD Phenom II X4 810
I'm going to give up on trying to get 3 monitors to work.
Thank you for explaining why it will never work.
Even though there are 5 graphics connectors on the desktop.
I wonder if a splitter exists?


Yes it does. Matrox makes splitters.

They made two way and three way ones.
(Reviews were on Anandtech.)
They had versions for VGA and ones with
digital on them.

The output graphics standard has to support
output at a high enough res, for the splitter
to make two equal halves of it. Like maybe
5760x1080. The web site for Matrox used to
have some "examples" of cards and the max
they could output. The outputs might typically
stop at 1920x1080 or so. I don't think they
ever made 4K versions of the tech. Smoke
would come out :-) In my made up example,
5760x1080 would be turned into three monitors
of 1920x1080 each, at the same Hertz rate.

It's a trifle expensive, as it's possible
they were using an FPGA to do that. If you
had a slot for a video card, in many cases
a new video card could be cheaper. (Video cards
come with up to six connectors, like HDMI, DVI,
4*DisplayPort). My "cheap" video card only
has five, and if I'd ponied up a few hundred bucks
more, I could have had a sixth.

Nominally a solution exists, but in the real
world, I don't know how practical splitters are.
The tech works. And as far as I know, Matrox
(in some form) still exists. What they have
left for staff, who knows.

And did the Chinese make versions ? Not that
I've seen.

Paul
 




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