Question Looking to drive 3 x 2560x1440 monitors from my laptop – what are my options?

[Fun Guy]

A quick search showed this, but it's kind of expensive: https://video.matrox.com/en/products/gxm/triplehead2go-series/dp-edition

Any other options?

 

[Fun Guy]

FYI, I will be using three of these monitors:

V277U bmiipx | Monitors | UM.HV7AA.003 | Acer Professional Solutions

27" - Brightness 350 Nit - Color Black

www.acer.com

 

[Fun Guy]

What about this one?

Amazon.com

 

[Ajay]

I know nothing about this, but you may want to post your laptop model and specs in case someone shows up who can help.

 

[In2Photos]

A quick search showed this, but it's kind of expensive: https://video.matrox.com/en/products/gxm/triplehead2go-series/dp-edition

Any other options?

This only supports 3 1920x1080 monitors.

It would definitely help to know what laptop you have and what ports it has. A USB 3 or thunderbolt dock will likely be what you need.

 

[VirtualLarry]

e-GPU?

 

[Fun Guy]

Sorry guys, for some reason I'm not getting notifications of replies to this post.

My laptop is an HP EVO Envy
Product No: 50V32UA
Model: 13-ba1063cl (50V32UA)
64-bit Windows 11 Pro, Build 22000.652

 

[In2Photos]

Sorry guys, for some reason I'm not getting notifications of replies to this post.

My laptop is an HP EVO Envy
Product No: 50V32UA
Model: 13-ba1063cl (50V32UA)
64-bit Windows 11 Pro, Build 22000.652

OK, your laptop has Thunderbolt 4. So a dock would work well. It will allow you to use the dock for charging and all of your peripheral support. So one cable from the laptop to the dock. Everything else plugs into the dock. This is how I have my Dell XPS15 set up and it works really well. I'm using the Dell dock for mine, but there are non OEM docks available too. Check HP if you want to stick with an OEM model.

Here's one from Amazon that supports up to 3 4K monitors: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0779K9DG2?ref=emc_s_m_5_i_n
Another one: https://www.amazon.com/Plugable-Dis...mzn1.fos.f5122f16-c3e8-4386-bf32-63e904010ad0

Just search for a 3 monitor thunderbolt dock.

 

[thecoolnessrune]

If you want natively supported, quick and easy, get the HP Thunderbolt Dock G4. It supports DP 1.4 with and without DSC.

Thunderbolt is expensive, you're driving alot of bandwidth. If spending a couple hundred dollars on the system in addition to your monitors is expensive to you, you may consider using fewer monitors or going a different route. That's not a a jab at all btw, just trying to make it clear that running 3 external high resolution monitors on a laptop is a luxury, and it's not something you're going to achieve with a sub-$100 dock from Amazon.

Note that you can save some money by swapping Thunderbolt for a high resolution capable USB-C dock like the HP USB-C Dock G5. You should validate in your laptop's UEFI that you can change the port to "High Resolution Mode". In doing so, you can get the dual Displayport streams out of the laptops USB-C mode port (this would normally only be available in Thunderbolt mode). The trade-off is that the USB ports on the dock itself will only operate in USB 2.0 mode. In exchange it's about half the price of the Thunderbolt Dock. So it just depends on how many features you want out of the dock as well as future compatibility, because if the laptop you use now or in the future does not have the ability to trade USB 3.2 operation for 2 Displayport Streams, then you won't have enough bandwidth to connect 3 2560x1440 monitors to it.