What is daisy chaining?

[Carlos1010]

Hi all,

I heard this alot when Linus what talking about GPU's/displays but I still don't have no clue what it is. Help! Thanks in advanced! 

[ThinkWithPortals]

Daisy chaining is the ability to plug, for example, instead of 2 monitors into your graphics card, you can plug one monitor into your graphics card and the other monitor into the first monitor and have the computer work with them all.

 

[SageOfSpice]

[Hans Christian | Teri]

11 minutes ago, ThinkWithPortals said:

Daisy chaining is the ability to plug, for example, instead of 2 monitors into your graphics card, you can plug one monitor into your graphics card and the other monitor into the first monitor and have the computer work with them all.

 

This. It is not necessarily something you want to do if you can avoid it though, as there are minor nuisances with it (ie the first screen having to fully wake up before the next screen is woken up). Other than only using a single DisplayPort there are no advantages to daisy chaining.

[Glenwing]

21 minutes ago, Carlos1010 said:

Hi all,

I heard this alot when Linus what talking about GPU's/displays but I still don't have no clue what it is. Help! Thanks in advanced! 

[Carlos1010]

8 minutes ago, ThinkWithPortals said:

 

Daisy chaining is the ability to plug, for example, instead of 2 monitors into your graphics card, you can plug one monitor into your graphics card and the other monitor into the first monitor and have the computer work with them all.

 

So will all the monitors work exactly the same as if all the monitor are directly connected to the GPU?

[Glenwing]

3 minutes ago, Carlos1010 said:

So will all the monitors work exactly the same as if all the monitor are directly connected to the GPU?

Yes.

[Hans Christian | Teri]

5 minutes ago, Carlos1010 said:

So will all the monitors work exactly the same as if all the monitor are directly connected to the GPU?

 

16 minutes ago, Hans Christian | Teri said:

...ie the first screen having to fully wake up before the next screen is woken up...

Almost

[ThinkWithPortals]

5 minutes ago, Carlos1010 said:

So will all the monitors work exactly the same as if all the monitor are directly connected to the GPU?

Indeed.

[Carlos1010]

30 minutes ago, ThinkWithPortals said:

Indeed.

So daisy chaning will only work if your monitor has 2 of the same ports? Or can you daisy chain even if for example you plug in DP for the first and to tie the first to the second you use HDMI will that work? Will it reduce the video output? Thanks for your response

[Glenwing]

31 minutes ago, Carlos1010 said:

So daisy chaning will only work if your monitor has 2 of the same ports? Or can you daisy chain even if for example you plug in DP for the first and to tie the first to the second you use HDMI will that work? Will it reduce the video output? Thanks for your response

Daisy-chaining can only be done from monitors that have a dedicated DisplayPort output just for chaining to the next monitor (not a normal input port for connecting a source). Adapters to HDMI or other connections won't work, daisy-chaining is a feature specific to the DisplayPort standard.

[Carlos1010]

3 minutes ago, Glenwing said:

Daisy-chaining can only be done from monitors that have a dedicated DisplayPort output just for chaining to the next monitor (not a normal input port for connecting a source). Adapters to HDMI or other connections won't work, daisy-chaining is a feature specific to the DisplayPort standard.

So (Just asking) can you do it for example the first DP 1.2 and for the second DP 1.3, will that work? 

[Glenwing]

17 minutes ago, Carlos1010 said:

So (Just asking) can you do it for example the first DP 1.2 and for the second DP 1.3, will that work? 

Yes.