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I need to connect 3 monitors, is it better to do all 3 via HDMI splitter or 2 HDMI and 1 DVI?

Posted: Wed Feb 13, 2019 13:44
by Lennywat
Hai, such a question, maybe off topic. I need to connect 3 monitors, is it better to do all 3 via HDMI splitter or 2 HDMI and 1 DVI?

Re: I need to connect 3 monitors, is it better to do all 3 via HDMI splitter or 2 HDMI and 1 DVI?

Posted: Wed Feb 13, 2019 14:55
by Lennywat
As I understood, they carried me to a separate topic, therefore I will add. I understand that much will take care of the quality of the splitter, here are 2 variants that I want FosPower FOSAV-2157 or Zettaguard ZW-140. So, the first has many ports and HDСP support, the second has many video support formats (URL moderated.) Based on these variants, the question remains the same)

Re: I need to connect 3 monitors, is it better to do all 3 via HDMI splitter or 2 HDMI and 1 DVI?

Posted: Wed Feb 13, 2019 16:18
by Arvol
It depends on your application. Are all 3 of your sources going to be next to each other to form one giant canvas? If so I would recommend using a FX4.

If the outputs will be away from each other and sync isn't an issue, then it really doesn't matter. The issue you will run into is screen tearing if your outputs are not a Quadro series card.

You will want to make sure your UI is on a monitor connected to your high performance GPU (such as Nvidia or AMD) and make sure this GPU is configured to do the rendering.

Re: I need to connect 3 monitors, is it better to do all 3 via HDMI splitter or 2 HDMI and 1 DVI?

Posted: Wed Feb 13, 2019 17:32
by Lennywat
They are close by, the video card from Nvidia 1060 TI
Two monitors for montage, one for entertainment during the render
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Re: I need to connect 3 monitors, is it better to do all 3 via HDMI splitter or 2 HDMI and 1 DVI?

Posted: Wed Feb 13, 2019 19:43
by He2neg
A splitter will just copy the Signal you Input to as many Outputs as it got.

so Signal A will get A´ & A´´ & A´´´

All the same Image....

What you need is a different tool. You need 3 seperate Screens so your GFX Card will have to render 3 independent signals.

A & B & C

https://resolume.com/support/en/lots-of-outputs

Re: I need to connect 3 monitors, is it better to do all 3 via HDMI splitter or 2 HDMI and 1 DVI?

Posted: Thu Feb 14, 2019 09:28
by Lennywat
But what about the screen expansion function? and what about the tool?

Re: I need to connect 3 monitors, is it better to do all 3 via HDMI splitter or 2 HDMI and 1 DVI?

Posted: Thu Feb 14, 2019 20:56
by Empyfree
How many outputs are spare on your 1060 card? Do you need more outputs? Or just a couple of adaptors.

To get more “output” from a single HDMI socket you will need an output expander, for example a Triplehead2go or my favourite, a Datapath X4.

Simple HDMI splitters will just give you multiple copies of the same information.

I’m not sure what tools you’re referring to in your last post.

Re: I need to connect 3 monitors, is it better to do all 3 via HDMI splitter or 2 HDMI and 1 DVI?

Posted: Tue Sep 24, 2019 12:36
by Lennywat
Thanks