4-6 monitors setup
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The external monitor usb drive adapters tend to have driver conflicts, limited resolution and are just more trouble than they are worth... as Scat mentioned initially, used desktop, dual matched video cards is a much more realistic solution... Right tool for the right job
By the time you add up the money for the USB adapters, you could have purchased a decent used computer upgraded to a 250gb SSD - 8gb ram and a pair of Video Cards for the same money.
You only have a vga output, probably an old lenovo laptop anyway
By the time you add up the money for the USB adapters, you could have purchased a decent used computer upgraded to a 250gb SSD - 8gb ram and a pair of Video Cards for the same money.
You only have a vga output, probably an old lenovo laptop anyway
VGA and HDMI ports are much different looking. Difficult to confuse them. Many of the newer laptops have VGA, HDMI, and DP... perhaps even DVI.... all run from the onboard video chip. They will often run "one of each". But if you want to go beyond 3 monitors, then you get into the "adapter" business.
I meant the heat to the motherboard, don't all those monitors add more heat to motherboard and fry it? I know you can get fans to draw out heat, but still....
Not that I would ever want more monitors, but do they make an external video board you can pug into USB? I just think it is crazy to use laptop, but.....I haul around two laptops for trading, one for charting and another for platform, but that is all I need. I can't even fathom to think why anyone need all that and anymore.
Thanks for the info.
Nope. The onboard chip is designed to handle whatever number of monitors the designers intended. It's only concerned with its "driver functions". The laptop isn't powering the monitors.
I know laptop doesn't power the monitors, but when I had four monitors on a desktop PC, had to add extra fans to get rid of the heat, so thinking the same for laptops.
That heat came from the video cards in the PCI express slots