Running 3 displays on a GTX 1660 Super

[dpavle]

Hello,

 

At the moment I'm running a dual monitor setup on my 1660S, where one monitor is connected directly via HDMI and another secondary with a DisplayPort to VGA adapter. I'm planning to connect a third display (HDMI) but I'm unsure how to proceed. I only have a DVI connector left. Now, my question is, do I need an active adapter (DVI-HDMI) or would it work with a passive one? Or maybe there is another way to solve this?

I know I've had issues before when trying to run 3 displays on an older AMD GPU using passive adapters. I read a bit online and saw that this might not be an issue with newer cards but I'm not sure (something something DP++).

 

[RONOTHAN##]

1 minute ago, dpavle said:

Now, my question is, do I need an active adapter (DVI-HDMI) or would it work with a passive one?

Passive is fine. DVI is pin compatible with early versions of HDMI. As long as you're not trying to run anything too fancy (IIRC even 1440p 144Hz isn't supported by DVI) an adapter should just work. 

[LHJKO]

6 minutes ago, RONOTHAN## said:

Passive is fine. DVI is pin compatible with early versions of HDMI. As long as you're not trying to run anything too fancy (IIRC even 1440p 144Hz isn't supported by DVI) an adapter should just work. 

Also audio will not work over it if I remember correctly but does anyone actually use the audio out of monitors. 

 

actually i was thinking the other way dumb me dvi does not even have audio does it.

[dpavle]

9 minutes ago, RONOTHAN## said:

Passive is fine. DVI is pin compatible with early versions of HDMI. As long as you're not trying to run anything too fancy (IIRC even 1440p 144Hz isn't supported by DVI) an adapter should just work. 

I see. It's just a basic 1080p TV, nothing fancy, so it should be fine then.