At 2013-01-22 09:43, Daniel Vetter wrote:
> For your 3 monitor required a decen ivb based board should be good
> enough, as long as you keep the restriction in mind that 2 of them
> need to have the same dotclock (which in practice boils down to either
> 2x DP monitors or 2x identical monitors with the same type of
> connector).
> -Daniel
I'm still not clear on the details how to achieve this.
1. Option 1: "2x DP monitors"
How do I connect 2x DP monitors?
1a) I can not find any motherboards with more than one display port. Can
you?
1b) Or do you mean using Thunderbolt instead one of the DisplayPort ports?
In this case I need 1 Thunderbolt + 1 DisplayPort + 1 Something else?
The only motherboard I know of with this configuration is the ASUS
P8Z77-V Premium - which costs ~ 550 USD.
Can you recommend any other?
1c) Or do you mean using 2x (Thunderbolt -> Displayport) + something else.
I know about 2 dual-thunderbolt motherboards, all by GIGABYTE:
GA-Z77X-UP4 TH, GA-Z77X-UP5 TH, GA-Z77MX-D3H TH.
Did you mean these?
1c) Or do you mean achieving 2 DP by splitting a DP with a splitter like
I mentioned?
Does this mean that any mobo with a DP should work? Take for example the
Intel DQ77KB thin Mini-ITX board.
Can I split the DP into 2, and then connect 2 monitors via them, and add
a third one with HDMI?
Option 2: "2x identical monitors with the same type of connector"
What does "identical monitor" mean here? Is same resolution/freq enough,
or do we really need the same model?
For example, consider any of the GIGABYTE GA-B75N, GA-H77N-WIFI,
GA-Z77N-WIFI models.They all have 2 HDMI + 1 DVI output.
Does that mean that if I connect two identical monitors to the HDMI
ports, and a different one on the DVI port, and it should just work?
* * *
Sorry for being persistent; I would really like to understand my options
here.
(I intend to make a purchase based on the information, and I really
can't afford to be wrong...)
Thank you:
Kristof
