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boredom

My new graphics card has only 1 displayport out on it. I have just gotten 2x 144hz monitors. Is there any way of using both monitors at 144hz other than buying a new graphics card with multiple dp outs?

Feeling very dim right now

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Emyr in reply to @boredom

At work the standard solution for laptops recently has been Lenovo USB-C docks (Thinkpad T-series has been the standard-issue laptop for the last decade, now got HP Win10 convertibles being rolled out).

https://support.lenovo.com/gb/en/accessories/acc100348

Supports 1 x 4k@30Hz or 2 x 1080p@60Hz.

With my Dell XPS15 (9550, about 3 years old) that has a 4k screen, I can run 2 1080p screens via this dock but it can't handle a third 1080p device plugged into the laptop's own HDMI port. I've got another USB3 dock that I could try but it only does DVI so I'd need to find another screen.

Pretty sure I'm up against my GPU's limit. (got an IntelHD 530 built in and an NVidia GTX960M but I don't think both can work at the same time. The Lenovo dock actually appears as a display adapter in device manager)

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boredom in reply to @Emyr

I actually googled it and read a newer/ more helpful page and I can do 144hz with hdmi 1.4, so I think I'll just have one with DP, one with HDMI and that should be fine.

It's desktop btw, but thanks for that dock link, think I might get one for my brother to use my older monitors.

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