14 DAY TRIAL // AMD Eyefinity and NVIDIA 3D Vision Surround technologies are good for gamers and hardcore consumers, but professionals might not need the overpowered GPUs for, say, spreadsheet analysis, but could still draw benefits from multi-monitor setups. EVGA now has the answer.
The company has introduced the DisplayPort Hub, which can split a single DisplayPort connection port into three.
That is to say, if you hook this up to a PC and three monitors on the other end, you'll have extended the display area across all three displays.
On that note, if you still buy a high-end video card for whatever reason, you can use the EVGA DisplayPort Hub for 3D animation, CAD/CAM purposes, graphic design and video editing.
A whole bunch of resolutions are supported, depending on what individual settings you ascribe each of the three monitors:
2400 x 600 (3 x 800 x 600) 3072 x 768 (3 x 1024 x 768) 3840 x 720 (3 x 1280 x 720) 3840 x 768 (3 x 1280 x 768) 3840 x 800 (3 x 1280 x 800) 3840 x 960 (3 x 1280 x 960) 3840 x 1024 (3 x 1280 x 1024) 4080 x 768 (3 x 1360 x 768) 4098 x 768 (3 x 1366 x 768) 4320 x 900 (3 x 1440 x 900) 5040 x 1050 (3 x 1680 x 1050) 5760 x 1080 (3 x 1920 x 1080)
That's quite a list, and you can probably imagine how things will look if you use particularly large LCDs for those last few resolutions. Professionals might want to prepare a large and bare wall in advance of acquiring the hub and assorted displays.
That said, the EVGA DisplayPort Hub can be configured quickly and easily, since it's hot pluggable (doesn't need system shutdown) and is compatible with all DisplayPort graphics cards and notebooks (DisplayPort 1.2a). It's also totally silent.