Any SFF machines that will run 3 monitors?

Doosht · 9 Oct 2010 at 09:44

Looking for something like the zotac z box but i want to be able to run 3 monitors. Are there any options out there?

Marvin · 9 Oct 2010 at 10:22

I reckon unless you run a discrete GPU you may be out of luck.

Maybe a 5450 on an Atom board in a tiny case?

accod · 9 Oct 2010 at 10:58

You can get usb to dvi/vga adapters. Not sure how well they'll work for watching films if that's why you're asking. http://www.evga.com/uvplus/

accod · 9 Oct 2010 at 10:59

Oh and you'll probably only need one as the onboard should be able to run two screens, one via dvi/hdmi, the other via vga. Obviously depends on the machine but that's normally the case.

necrontyr · 9 Oct 2010 at 11:06

Yea accod's spot on, no sff machine like the eeebox or the zotac zbox support 3 screens out of the box.

The Usb adapters are a stopgap solution better used for document viewing and web browsing than video or gaming due to the compression and transfer accross usb 2.0 limitations in place.... But it will get you to 3 screens , or 4 or 5 depending on how many adapters you purchase.

But again, at 3 screens you are likely going to overstress such a small machine.

cokecan · 9 Oct 2010 at 22:50

Would something like a Matrox TripleHead2go be of more use here?