News This graphics card makes it easy to have more than four displays — sub-$100 DisplayLink adapter uses a PCIe x1 slot

[Admin]

DisplayLink has a new graphics card that lets you easily add more monitors to your PC. Modern graphics cards typically only support up to four displays, so if you want a fifth, sixth or even eighth monitor, this card might be for you.

This graphics card makes it easy to have more than four displays — sub-$100 DisplayLink adapter uses a PCIe x1 slot : Read more

 

[usertests]

The DL-7400 can power up to four 4K monitors running at 120 Hz, or two 8K monitors running at 60 Hz with HDR10. And it manages all that with a limited impact on performance. It's not meant for gaming but it can handle casual games.

What does this mean?

 

[plateLunch]

Sounds like something you could make a good stock trading setup with. You don't need fancy gaming graphics but having a lot of monitors running with different charts is nice.

 

[cyrusfox]

Displaylink works great in a dock, for an extra display, but the refresh rate as well as the CPU resources used are noticeable from my past experience, For a modern platform, maybe not much of an issue. The output is perfectly suitable for coding and research, but painful for video or any motion. . As most GPU's already sport 4 displays available and additionally if you use intel and have the iGPU switched on in the bios, that is another 4 displays available(although most mobo only have 2 outputs available), not sure on the use case.

For focus I am now finding less is more, but do whatever works best for your workflow. This may be a bargain for digital signage, an update to the old slim HD 5450 output gpus. Its the sole reason I bought a GT 1030 for $80 back in 2017.

 

[cyrusfox]

What does this mean?

DisplayLink adds a new translational level, so expect to have an added latency hit, which means it will be no fun playing games that require any sort of quick reaction time. Turn based games should be no issue.

 

[edzieba]

No thanks, the DisplayLink drivers are worse than most malware.

 

[abufrejoval]

What does this mean?

Mostly that it's a pure 2D device with probably some video acceleration where any 3D would have to be done by the CPU.

Now actually an iGPU's or dGPU's power could probably be harnished having them render in off-screen pixmaps, which would the be either transcoded or simply BitBlt to the (probably) on card frame buffer, but that's a lot of software work (similar to Steam Remote) for limited benefits DL will want to avoid.

And that means doing 2D stuff on the monitors connected to DL adapters should be just fine. If you're intending to play GPU intensive games, better use the screens connected to those.

 

[jabliese]

I do not believe this, my computer has no reference to a fibeo port. What is this magic that Avram Piltch can find on most recent graphics cards? Please let this not be a typo, a fibeo port sounds like just what my computer needs for more sparkle!

 

[subspruce]

there's barely any point selling GT 710s anymore.