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    m17x r3 multi-monitor

    Discussion in 'Alienware 17 and M17x' started by shadowyani, Mar 17, 2011.

  1. shadowyani

    shadowyani Notebook Deity

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    I'm looking through the manual and there's no mention of how many monitors can be attached. I'm hoping we can attach monitors through VGA, DVI (displayport>DVI cable), and HDMI for a total of 4 screens (including the internal monitor).

    Can anyone confirm before I go crazy buying cables?
     
    shadowyani, Mar 17, 2011
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    LVNeptune Notebook Virtuoso

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    You should be able to do HDMI-Out and DVI out, nothing more than that though.
     
    LVNeptune, Mar 18, 2011
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  3. shadowyani

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    Ah well that's still perfect for having screens on the left and the right.
     
    shadowyani, Mar 18, 2011
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    the Displayport can run multiple monitors if you do it right though. there is probably a spliter that you could buy to give you two dvi ports(each an independent screen), I know that displayport supports chaining (like firewire) for multiple displays as well.
     
    ir0nman1, Mar 18, 2011
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    you can hook up 3 monitors if you use an active DP adapter, i didn't know better so i bought a passive one to discover that by default, you can only have 2 displays, no matter internal or external

    there's a video on youtube of a guy using 3 monitors with eyefinity thourhg HMDI, DP and VGA... with an active dp adapter, since the video card can only generate 2 clocks

    daisy chaining sounds interesting, just googled it but im curious if thats cheaper than using active dp adapters
     
    99005997, Mar 18, 2011
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    x3po, Jul 9, 2011
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