Hello everyone!
First of all my apologies for making my first post here a question.
I have not been a member of a PC forum as far as I can remember but browsed a lot of them when Googling for answers of course.
I am a long time visitor of Tom's hardware though, as long as the site exists I guess.
Used 5 years of (now) antique consoles and computers before my folks had a 8088 in the house. After DOS I used Windows for 15 years, then deserted to OSX for about 15 years and am now moving back to Windows. Pretty much an oldtimer. 😉
I know there have been a lot of similar questions asked on this and other forums but they're always about SLI and Physx and that is not at all what my question is about. My question is about multiple HDMI outputs for sound and video.
I would like to use 2 Nvidia video cards in one PC.
I know that's possible but I'm not interested in using one for Physx or using them in SLI (though I have no problem with it if they have to be configured that way}.
I am also not inetersted in using a multi-monitor setup or anything like that.
So why then?
Well, I need multiple HDMI ports (4 or 5 actually) all putting out the same signal.
I would only use 2 of them at the same time though (one for video, 1 for audio) but I really want all of them to be connected so I can switch easily).
I need HDMI for sound output since it's the only way to output HD sound. USB and optical are limited to DD and DTS, they can't output Dolby TrueHD and DTS-HD Master or higher.
So what do I want to connect?
- a monitor via Diplay Port (ultrawide)
- a TV via HDMI (4K HDR)
- VR glasses
- a Smyth Realiser (like an A/V receiver but for headphones)
- 2 soundbars (Atmos or at least TrueHD capable)
So how do I go about getting 4 to 5 HDMI ports? The only good way I know about is two video cards with 3 outputs or so. I tried a bunch of HDMI splitters but they're a real pain and none of them did output all I want, except HD Fury but that one only has two outputs.
And am I better off with two identical cards for what I want to do or can I get a good one for video and a cheap one for audio? Probably best if they'refrom the same generation if I do that, for the drivers, no? Like a 1080TI and a 1050 for example.
So would that work, would both cars ouput the same audio and video signal? I guess all ports would output both audio and video?
What problems can I expect? Driver configuration? Assigning the outputs in Windows control panel? Switching between screens/audio devices?
Any info you can share with me would be really welcome!
First of all my apologies for making my first post here a question.
I have not been a member of a PC forum as far as I can remember but browsed a lot of them when Googling for answers of course.
I am a long time visitor of Tom's hardware though, as long as the site exists I guess.
Used 5 years of (now) antique consoles and computers before my folks had a 8088 in the house. After DOS I used Windows for 15 years, then deserted to OSX for about 15 years and am now moving back to Windows. Pretty much an oldtimer. 😉
I know there have been a lot of similar questions asked on this and other forums but they're always about SLI and Physx and that is not at all what my question is about. My question is about multiple HDMI outputs for sound and video.
I would like to use 2 Nvidia video cards in one PC.
I know that's possible but I'm not interested in using one for Physx or using them in SLI (though I have no problem with it if they have to be configured that way}.
I am also not inetersted in using a multi-monitor setup or anything like that.
So why then?
Well, I need multiple HDMI ports (4 or 5 actually) all putting out the same signal.
I would only use 2 of them at the same time though (one for video, 1 for audio) but I really want all of them to be connected so I can switch easily).
I need HDMI for sound output since it's the only way to output HD sound. USB and optical are limited to DD and DTS, they can't output Dolby TrueHD and DTS-HD Master or higher.
So what do I want to connect?
- a monitor via Diplay Port (ultrawide)
- a TV via HDMI (4K HDR)
- VR glasses
- a Smyth Realiser (like an A/V receiver but for headphones)
- 2 soundbars (Atmos or at least TrueHD capable)
So how do I go about getting 4 to 5 HDMI ports? The only good way I know about is two video cards with 3 outputs or so. I tried a bunch of HDMI splitters but they're a real pain and none of them did output all I want, except HD Fury but that one only has two outputs.
And am I better off with two identical cards for what I want to do or can I get a good one for video and a cheap one for audio? Probably best if they'refrom the same generation if I do that, for the drivers, no? Like a 1080TI and a 1050 for example.
So would that work, would both cars ouput the same audio and video signal? I guess all ports would output both audio and video?
What problems can I expect? Driver configuration? Assigning the outputs in Windows control panel? Switching between screens/audio devices?
Any info you can share with me would be really welcome!
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