I'm an EE software engineer but clearly I don't know as much as you smart folks. I am impressed on what I see on this site and it's amazing!
I'd like to buy a PC that will support 3 displays. I've been looking at computers that have motherboards with 3 DP's (or 2 DP's with 1 HDMI, etc.) on the back.
I assumed that an integrated motherboard monitor port would support a monitor, but clearly I am dumb.
Without getting too deep into every different manufacturer, why am I being told that 3 ports does not mean it will run 3 monitors? What is the point of having the 3 holes! ?!? LOL
I'm NOT GAMING.
I will just running a stock trading program (TD Ameritrade ThinkOrSwim to be exact) which does millions of calculations, but only changes a number or two on the screen or maybe moves a chart dot every minute - NOT a lot of FAST display changes.
I've heard about GPU's, etc., and understand how graphics cards have their own processing...
BUT what might I expect if I plugged 3 monitors into a motherboard's 3 DP's?
You can just answer 1 of the options above and provide me some theory or reasons why, or even just say they won't work together because of limited power supply voltage? - then I can move on and make my purchase.
Thank you so much for your expertise and if I can Venmo someone $5 or $10 for solid answer I will. Much appreciated.
I'd like to buy a PC that will support 3 displays. I've been looking at computers that have motherboards with 3 DP's (or 2 DP's with 1 HDMI, etc.) on the back.
I assumed that an integrated motherboard monitor port would support a monitor, but clearly I am dumb.
Without getting too deep into every different manufacturer, why am I being told that 3 ports does not mean it will run 3 monitors? What is the point of having the 3 holes! ?!? LOL
I'm NOT GAMING.
I will just running a stock trading program (TD Ameritrade ThinkOrSwim to be exact) which does millions of calculations, but only changes a number or two on the screen or maybe moves a chart dot every minute - NOT a lot of FAST display changes.
I've heard about GPU's, etc., and understand how graphics cards have their own processing...
BUT what might I expect if I plugged 3 monitors into a motherboard's 3 DP's?
- Will it literally not run 3 monitors and why?
- Is the refresh rate of the monitor affected? Will things be blurry?
- Will it slow down my i9K PC because it's working so hard to run 3 displays? - I do have a laptop running a USB-HDMI monitor convertor which I'm pretty sure is slowing down my performance, but I really don't know.
- I/O bus can't support the traffic?
- ???
You can just answer 1 of the options above and provide me some theory or reasons why, or even just say they won't work together because of limited power supply voltage? - then I can move on and make my purchase.
Thank you so much for your expertise and if I can Venmo someone $5 or $10 for solid answer I will. Much appreciated.