Docking Ports

[WhyFenceCode]

Budget (including currency): Not really a build, but I have around 500 cad

Country: Canada

Games, programs or workloads that it will be used for: Connecting to a laptop

Other details (existing parts lists, whether any peripherals are needed, what you're upgrading from, when you're going to buy, what resolution and refresh rate you want to play at, etc): Do you know of any thunderbolt 4 docks with 3 dp, 1 hdmi?

 

[jaslion]

That is beyond the limit of thunderbolt and most likely your laptop

[Bismut]

26 minutes ago, jaslion said:

That is beyond the limit of thunderbolt and most likely your laptop

Depends, doesn't it? You could add an external GPU or get a dock that gets you most of the way there as well as some adapters and be satisfied with lower resolution, framerate and possibly some jankyness. It should be possible.

[mr cheese]

Yes.

Lenovo makes a dock, if you have one, with 4 external displays. I don't think it works with every laptop but it does work quite well.

Otherwise, you can use a dock like this to get 2, then use 2 USB-C to DP cables to handle the rest.

Realistically, TB4 bandwidth can handle this, to whatever limits your GPU can handle.

13 minutes ago, Bismut said:

You could add an external GPU

also this. You can get external docks for $300 and probably something like an RX 580, 1060, 1650, or any other dGPU that has the display outputs you need for ~$100 and throw it in there no problem

 

EDIT:

found this lol

https://www.amazon.com/Plugable-Thunderbolt-Charging-Certified-DisplayPort/dp/B0BQJWKBMF/

You can adapt HDMI to DP easily

It does "group" the ports into groups of 2. No idea what that means or how it functions, but be aware of that.

[WhyFenceCode]

1 hour ago, jaslion said:

That is beyond the limit of thunderbolt and most likely your laptop

No, i found some thanks to this

 

1 hour ago, mr cheese said:

Yes.

Lenovo makes a dock, if you have one, with 4 external displays. I don't think it works with every laptop but it does work quite well.

Otherwise, you can use a dock like this to get 2, then use 2 USB-C to DP cables to handle the rest.

Realistically, TB4 bandwidth can handle this, to whatever limits your GPU can handle.

also this. You can get external docks for $300 and probably something like an RX 580, 1060, 1650, or any other dGPU that has the display outputs you need for ~$100 and throw it in there no problem

 

EDIT:

found this lol

https://www.amazon.com/Plugable-Thunderbolt-Charging-Certified-DisplayPort/dp/B0BQJWKBMF/

You can adapt HDMI to DP easily

It does "group" the ports into groups of 2. No idea what that means or how it functions, but be aware of that.

 

[jaslion]

2 hours ago, WhyFenceCode said:

No, i found some thanks to this

 

 

It REALLY depends on your laptop. These docks either use a combination of your gpu + built in usb gpu's or dp mst + thunderbolt.

 

So please list the laptop in question to know for sure if this dock can even work fully.

 

Officially thunderbolt 4 only support 2 screens up to 4k/60 but this can be worked around if your laptop has other available options which these docks rely on