thunderbolt Thunderbolt and multiple monitors

[Muhny]

After the video where Linus puts the computers in a different room and uses a single thunderbolt connection to use as a connection between him and the computers, it got me thinking: How much can i display with a single thunderbolt connection.

 

My goal is to do something similar to get rid of the noise completely, but with more pixels. My idea was a setup with 3 monitors. the middle one being the Acer X34 and the two others being Acer XB270HU.

I know the newest version of thunderbolt can transfer 40Gbit/s but the implimentation in boards have been hard to find.

 

My question then is would a single Thunderbolt 3 cable be enough to power all of this? and if so, how would i go about wiring it all up, as it would probably require several hubs and i have not seen any ways of getting the data from the graphics cards to a single cable, like the PCIe card that was used in Linus' project. It is a hypothetical build so should i wait until the next gen come out?

 

(btw i only have one XB270HU at the moment so the choices were made very much because of this)

Thanks and much love

[Muhny]

After the video where Linus puts the computers in a different room and uses a single thunderbolt connection to use as a connection between him and the computers, it got me thinking: How much can i display with a single thunderbolt connection.

 

My goal is to do something similar to get rid of the noise completely, but with more pixels. My idea was a setup with 3 monitors. the middle one being the Acer X34 and the two others being Acer XB270HU.

I know the newest version of thunderbolt can transfer 40Gbit/s but the implimentation in boards have been hard to find.

 

My question then is would a single Thunderbolt 3 cable be enough to power all of this? and if so, how would i go about wiring it all up, as it would probably require several hubs and i have not seen any ways of getting the data from the graphics cards to a single cable, like the PCIe card that was used in Linus' project. It is a hypothetical build so should i wait until the next gen come out?

 

(btw i only have one XB270HU at the moment so the choices were made very much because of this)

Thanks and much love

[Marziman]

1 minute ago, Muhny said:

After the video where Linus puts the computers in a different room and uses a single thunderbolt connection to use as a connection between him and the computers, it got me thinking: How much can i display with a single thunderbolt connection.

 

My goal is to do something similar to get rid of the noise completely, but with more pixels. My idea was a setup with 3 monitors. the middle one being the Acer X34 and the two others being Acer XB270HU.

I know the newest version of thunderbolt can transfer 40Gbit/s but the implimentation in boards have been hard to find.

 

My question then is would a single Thunderbolt 3 cable be enough to power all of this? and if so, how would i go about wiring it all up, as it would probably require several hubs and i have not seen any ways of getting the data from the graphics cards to a single cable, like the PCIe card that was used in Linus' project. It is a hypothetical build so should i wait until the next gen come out?

 

(btw i only have one XB270HU at the moment so the choices were made very much because of this)

Thanks and much love

Reposting is against the rules here, it's going to be locked but I don't think the thunder bolt cable will work.  It might, but it could be buggy.

[Glenwing]

12 minutes ago, Muhny said:

After the video where Linus puts the computers in a different room and uses a single thunderbolt connection to use as a connection between him and the computers, it got me thinking: How much can i display with a single thunderbolt connection.

 

My goal is to do something similar to get rid of the noise completely, but with more pixels. My idea was a setup with 3 monitors. the middle one being the Acer X34 and the two others being Acer XB270HU.

I know the newest version of thunderbolt can transfer 40Gbit/s but the implimentation in boards have been hard to find.

 

My question then is would a single Thunderbolt 3 cable be enough to power all of this? and if so, how would i go about wiring it all up, as it would probably require several hubs and i have not seen any ways of getting the data from the graphics cards to a single cable, like the PCIe card that was used in Linus' project. It is a hypothetical build so should i wait until the next gen come out?

 

(btw i only have one XB270HU at the moment so the choices were made very much because of this)

Thanks and much love

It wouldn't be enough. Thunderbolt data isn't used for displays, it sends a DisplayPort signal over the Thunderbolt cable. Thunderbolt 3 only supports DisplayPort 1.2, which is only enough for a single X34 or XB270HU.

 

The only way to have multiple monitors from a single port anyway would be if the monitors had a DisplayPort/Thunderbolt output port for daisy-chaining, which none of those monitors have, or a DisplayPort/Thunderbolt hub. DisplayPort hubs exist for DP 1.2 but I don't think Thunderbolt 3 hubs even exist, and you'd still be limited to the data of a single DisplayPort connection.

[Muhny]

So its just waiting and seeing then? bummer. I think Linus would have made an awesome video of this if it was possible. Engineers at Intel, get on it!

[Muhny]

9 minutes ago, Marziman said:

Reposting is against the rules here, it's going to be locked but I don't think the thunder bolt cable will work.  It might, but it could be buggy.

Sorry, thought crossposting was ok since it includedd multiple topics.