Portable equipment includes an HDMI or USB-C port to send the signal to an external monitor and use it as an extended desk in addition to the equipment screen. The thing is very different on an office PC, where we have a port Hdmia port VGA, A port Dvi O DisplayPort to send the signal to an instructor and where we can only use one of the three, not the three jointly.
What do I need to connect two or more screens to a PC
On the market, we can find devices that allow us Reproduce the image one source on several screens at the same time. This type of peripherals is not intended to use several screens by PC because it always shows the same image, especially the same desk as we have on the main screen. Its usefulness is to connect a PC and a console to use the same instructor.
If we want to connect several monitors to the same PC and they show different images, that is to say that everyone shows a different application, what we need is a dedicated graphics card. All graphics cards include several ports that we can use jointly or independently. The graphics cards that we can find on the market generally include a port Hdmi and three ports DisplayPort.
When we install a graphics card on our PC, the equipment automatically detects it and deactivates the video output This includes the motherboard. This prevents us from being able to connect a larger number of monitors than the one who officially takes the graph via his ports.
How many monitors can I connect to a PC?
The number of monitors that we can connect to the same PC depends on the graphics card. As we have said, all the graphics currently available on the market include a maximum of 4 ports. This means that we can connect up to 4 monitors to the same PC and each of them can show a different image or the same thing in each of them by widening the office or the application or the game that we execute as we can see in the image that directs this article.
Mother cards have a specific PCIe port where we have to connect the graphics card. This port is the one Big band And is specially designed to connect the graphics card. In addition, they also include more PCIe ports with a Lower bandwidth Where we can also connect other graphics, taking into account that their advantages will be limited. If we want to connect more than 4 monitors to a PC, all we need to do is add more graphics cards taking into account in disability that we have commented.
The maximum number of monitors that we can connect to a Windows PC is limited to a maximum of 64, a very difficult number to reach, unless we use a motherboard which includes 16 PCIE ports to connect 16 graphics cards with 4 video output ports each. With the rise of the exploitation of cryptocurrencies, some manufacturers have chosen to launch models with the support of several PCIe ports such as the H100 Pro model from Asrock.
