Will my graphics card support 3 screens?
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Evening all
I would like to connect another display screen (Dell) to my current sony Vaio laptop and seperate samsung monitor .This will mean I will have three display screens including the laptop's . Would anyone know whether it will be possible please?
The Graphics card is ATI Mobility HD 4500 Series but I cannot find out how many displays it will support
I have bought a USB 3.0 to Dual HDMI Adapter from StarTech.com in the hope this will help to connect all three
Thanks for any advice
I would like to connect another display screen (Dell) to my current sony Vaio laptop and seperate samsung monitor .This will mean I will have three display screens including the laptop's . Would anyone know whether it will be possible please?
The Graphics card is ATI Mobility HD 4500 Series but I cannot find out how many displays it will support
I have bought a USB 3.0 to Dual HDMI Adapter from StarTech.com in the hope this will help to connect all three
Thanks for any advice
Morning
Thank you Corrado for your reply , my Vaio is really old is a model Sony Vaio PCG- 718M . Battery lasts very little time so I just run it off the mains all the time . I dont think it can be connected in a docking station and reluctant to spend the money on one in case my Vaio fails soon
Thank you Corrado for your reply , my Vaio is really old is a model Sony Vaio PCG- 718M . Battery lasts very little time so I just run it off the mains all the time . I dont think it can be connected in a docking station and reluctant to spend the money on one in case my Vaio fails soon
I haven't bothered with multi screens for a while so I might be out of date.
I was able to use a bog standard computer connected to multiple USB docking stations which each had HDMI ports.
My discovery was that despite the docking stations having their own graphics chips the graphics processing load was taken up by a single card and the extra graphics chips were just working as connectors. There is a setting somewhere to set a primary graphics card.
The result was quite satisfactory for basic windows based graphics without any 3D gaming etc.
I was able to use a bog standard computer connected to multiple USB docking stations which each had HDMI ports.
My discovery was that despite the docking stations having their own graphics chips the graphics processing load was taken up by a single card and the extra graphics chips were just working as connectors. There is a setting somewhere to set a primary graphics card.
The result was quite satisfactory for basic windows based graphics without any 3D gaming etc.
Yeah I didn't realise it was that old but I'd say new laptop time - you need to be running Windows 11 by the end of the year anyway.
The DisplayLink USB docks are universal but do use resources - very proven and reliable solution though, and like I say, one single USB-C charges the laptop and connects to everything else for a nice clean setup.
The DisplayLink USB docks are universal but do use resources - very proven and reliable solution though, and like I say, one single USB-C charges the laptop and connects to everything else for a nice clean setup.
No, it only supports one external monitor and you only have USB 2.0 so that won't work well for another monitor output.
The HD4*** series only support two monitors https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radeon_HD_4000_serie...
The HD4*** series only support two monitors https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radeon_HD_4000_serie...
If you're using it online, it'll be a matter of when, not if your device gets compromised. Not to mention software not that far off from not being supported at all.
Appreciate you're budget constrained, but I'd still honestly channel any funds at all into even a used 4-5 year old machine.
Appreciate you're budget constrained, but I'd still honestly channel any funds at all into even a used 4-5 year old machine.
Also, another thought. You mentioned not being able to find another laptop with the same amount of storage.
Whatever you're storing locally on the device, do you have it backed up elsewhere? Assuming the worst case with a device that was compromised, damaged, stolen, the house catches fire etc. I'd strongly advise not to keep everything only on the laptop.
R.e. device vulnerabilities. Windows 7 support ended five and a half years ago. No updates, patches, security vulnerabilities mitigated. Even the best, paid security software will only do so much. A plaster for a gunshot etc.
Whatever you're storing locally on the device, do you have it backed up elsewhere? Assuming the worst case with a device that was compromised, damaged, stolen, the house catches fire etc. I'd strongly advise not to keep everything only on the laptop.
R.e. device vulnerabilities. Windows 7 support ended five and a half years ago. No updates, patches, security vulnerabilities mitigated. Even the best, paid security software will only do so much. A plaster for a gunshot etc.
When you say it has 'lots of storage'...is that based on what was considered a lot 15 years ago? Is it fast SSD storage or slow HDD storage?
A small SSD is considered to be less than 500GB nowadays, and 1TB SSD can be had for less than £50. If it doesn't have an SSD and is running from a HDD (as the specs seem to suggest) then less than 1TB would be considered small nowadays.
A low-end Intel CPU from a couple of years ago (such as an i3-1315U) could be 5-20x faster depending on the task that that Pentium 4300 in the Vaio (assuming we've got the correct spec)...which is c.12 generations old.
A small SSD is considered to be less than 500GB nowadays, and 1TB SSD can be had for less than £50. If it doesn't have an SSD and is running from a HDD (as the specs seem to suggest) then less than 1TB would be considered small nowadays.
A low-end Intel CPU from a couple of years ago (such as an i3-1315U) could be 5-20x faster depending on the task that that Pentium 4300 in the Vaio (assuming we've got the correct spec)...which is c.12 generations old.
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