Can I connect multiple screens to my PC?

nothintoulouse · 21 Jul 2016 at 17:03

I wanted to connect 3 screens to one PC: One 55'' TV and two 22'' monitors.

Can I make all of them show different things (e.g. one website on each of the monitors, while showing a movie on the TV), but still have one mouse pointer that moves between the three of them?

It is basically like having three monitors next to each other, exept one of them is a TV, and I want to put different things on each screen.

Also, I only have one HDMI and one DVI port on my GPU and the same on my mobo.

(This is my old PC with a Radeon 6950. Please don't question why I do this.)

stulid · 21 Jul 2016 at 19:40

Yes probably.

I see no reason why you cant run 2 from the card and one from the board.

nothintoulouse · 21 Jul 2016 at 20:01

stulid said:
Yes probably.

I see no reason why you cant run 2 from the card and one from the board.

But could I then use one mouse that automatically moves from screen to screen?

and what would I need, to put two screens in one port?

TheGamingBarrel · 21 Jul 2016 at 20:03

nothintoulouse said:
But could I then use one mouse that automatically moves from screen to screen?

and what would I need, to put two screens in one port?

Yes, a large amount of people just use their integrated graphics for other monitors, as it also reduces load on the GPU On idle, as they also run out of ports they can use on their card.

Benjamham · 21 Jul 2016 at 20:11

If you have the correspoinding io on your tv and monitors then it will be fine. Windows will automatically allow you to mouse from one screen to the next, but you may have to change the display settings to rearrange the different screens

nothintoulouse · 21 Jul 2016 at 20:38

Benjamham said:
If you have the correspoinding io on your tv and monitors then it will be fine. Windows will automatically allow you to mouse from one screen to the next, but you may have to change the display settings to rearrange the different screens

What does io stand for?

Semple · 21 Jul 2016 at 21:24

Input/Output

Five.Stars · 21 Jul 2016 at 23:23

nothintoulouse said:
I wanted to connect 3 screens to one PC: One 55'' TV and two 22'' monitors.

Can I make all of them show different things (e.g. one website on each of the monitors, while showing a movie on the TV), but still have one mouse pointer that moves between the three of them?

It is basically like having three monitors next to each other, exept one of them is a TV, and I want to put different things on each screen.

Also, I only have one HDMI and one DVI port on my GPU and the same on my mobo.

(This is my old PC with a Radeon 6950. Please don't question why I do this.)

Are you absolutely sure of the outputs? The reference 6950 has 2 DVI's, 1 HDMI and 2 mini-displayports.

Assuming this is the same as your outputs (some non reference cards will differ) and depending on what inputs the displays have then what you are suggesting is easily possible. You just might require some adapters in the display chain.

Stealthploit · 23 Jul 2016 at 04:17

well u have 3 ports as u said 2 on gpu and 1 on mobo go ahead use some adapters and connect your screens