Laptop Can't Fit Needed Graphics Card

[mstrlucky74]

Company got me a new Dell laptop that has a graphics card to support (2) 4K monitors. Right now I have (2) 4k monitors and (1) regular 27" and all works fine. I want to get rid of the 27" and get a 3rd 4K but Dell said the laptop won't be able to fit/handle a graphics card that would do that? Any other option to run a 3rd 4k without having to buy another laptop? Thanks

 

[chemmajorp53]

I've never seen a laptop with 3 Displayport connections, how do you plan on getting 4k60 on all of them even if you get a decent graphics card in it? It would be nice if you let us know which model your laptop is.

 

[mstrlucky74]

Latitude E5570. I Can use 2 display ports and 1 HDMI, no? Thanks

 

[chemmajorp53]

Latitude E5570. I Can use 2 display ports and 1 HDMI, no? Thanks

You can but HDMI only supports 30hz in 4k, the screen will be really laggy. Intel integrated graphics only supports up to 3 panels as far as I know and your laptop screen is included in that, so I don't think you're going to be able to make this work. You should really be using a desktop to be running 3 4k displays.

 

[mstrlucky74]

Not for gaming only for viewing blueprints so HZ doesn't matter. I have 3 monitors and my laptop(which I keep closed) hooked up. So I can hook up three monitors.

 

[chemmajorp53]

Yeah it's pretty obvious this isn't for gaming haha. I mean if you don't mind it being laggy I'd just keep the laptop closed, set them all to 30 hz, and either hook all 3 of them up to the 2 displayport connections and HDMI or get a 2x MST hub and hook 2 up to the hub and 1 up to the spare displayport connection. You can get it to run 3 4k screens, just how well I don't know though as it's not every day you come across someone trying to do this. They usually just buy a desktop. Setting all 3 to 30hz will be the equivalent of running 6 1080p60 screens instead of 10, so it should drastically reduce the strain on your iGPU.

 

[mstrlucky74]

Thanks Chem. So I won't be able to run all 3 at the 4k resolution, one will automatically be displayed at a lower resolution . That's why I posed my question if there was a way to get all 3 @ 4k resolution. I throught I heard something about an external graphics card.

Anyway should I lower the HZ with my present setup?

 

[chemmajorp53]

You can get an external graphics card enclosure, but they're pretty expensive ($300+) and don't include the gpu. It would be the same price to build a cheap desktop computer. Some computers have docks for them that support eGPUs, but yours isn't one of them as far as I know. Below is an example. You can make your own but you have to get a laptop PCIe riser card (which requires you either always have the back open or take out the CD drive and run the cable through there) and a power supply with a jumper for the 24 pin mobo connector.

http://www.razerzone.com/store/razer-core

I mean this isn't my expertise but I'm trying to help, hopefully you can find some solution but I don't exactly know what the 100% best one is.

 

[mstrlucky74]

You can get an external graphics card enclosure, but they're pretty expensive ($300+) and don't include the gpu. It would be the same price to build a cheap desktop computer. Some computers have docks for them that support eGPUs, but yours isn't one of them as far as I know. Below is an example. You can make your own but you have to get a laptop PCIe riser card (which requires you either always have the back open or take out the CD drive and run the cable through there) and a power supply with a jumper for the 24 pin mobo connector.

http://www.razerzone.com/store/razer-core

I mean this isn't my expertise but I'm trying to help, hopefully you can find some solution but I don't exactly know what the 100% best one is.

Thanks do appreciate it. Need to keep the laptop as my comp.

 

[mstrlucky74]

Can anyone else shed some light on whether I can add an external graphics card to solve my problem? Thanks