Back a few weeks I picked up a brand new Intel NUC 11, BNUC11TNHi7, and it is advertised to have Dual HDMI and Dual Thunderbolt 4 ports, and they say that, with a special cable, you can do two monitors off of one HDMI port. However, when I went google diving, it said this is only possible with Thunderbolt 4, and not HDMI. The end goal here is I want to swap this one in as my main computer and run 3 monitors off of it just as advertised. What's the best way for me to do that as I looked around, but could only find dual HDMI adapters that literally mirrored the same output across two monitors, instead of doing separate monitor and desktop setups. I'm running a set of two Asus VE278Q 27" Full HD monitors, and a VP278QG 27". The second one sits off to the side on its own Nuc as the main system can't do triple monitors (just duals, yeah, it sucks), so I'm doing a sort of modified version of this with two systems, three monitors, and barrier KVM. I'd like to move everything together as one system with this new Nuc. Any ideas, including cables and such, on how to make this happen?
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I briefly looked at the specifications: "Dual HDMI 2.0b w/HDMI CEC, Dual DP 1.4a via Type C" and when I look at a picture of the ports I count four.
Shouldn't that be enough to connect 3 displays - or did I miss something? (In the technical specifications Intel says it is possible to connect up to 4 displays. In my understanding that means 4 different displays with different pictures - and why shouldn't that be possible?)
You should simply need three cables for the three monitors then - if you leave out the KVM and the old computer.
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Either ask/contact the advertiser or Intel about this capability. MyOriginally posted by megosdog View Post
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Okay, I was thinking of two displays on one HDMI port. But if I'm misunderstanding it, and that should really be that one of the displays needs to be the Thunderbolt to HDMI, then I guess it already has what I'm after.
I mean, I'm not a hardware guy, so if I misunderstood that, then I'm fine as I think I have a Thunderbolt to HDMI cable somewhere.
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