the outputs for the displays need to be physically attached to the graphics card itself, not to the motherbard, if you are using a discrete graphics card
@MadaraUchiha that's because on Windows there's a pass-through in the Intel IGP drivers that renders stuff to the IGP's attached monitor(s) in an off-screen surface (the pixels being generated by the discrete GPU) and copies it to the IGP's framebuffer
that's an Intel-specific thing and requires specific cooperating drivers between Intel and Nvidia/AMD
yes, that, or wait until there's a Ryzen APU for desktops that fits your motherboard and upgrade to that, and hope and pray the APU to GPU sort of passthrough for AMD works the same as Intel's
@MadaraUchiha I'd recommend asking for a GTX 1050. No need for aux power, and enough performance to reliably run all your desktop apps without slowdowns. It only costs about US$120.
I'm in a situation where my hardware that I do real work on is provisioned by a customer (for "security" purposes they don't allow us to bring our own personal devices nor company-I-work-for devices into their network) -- and our mgmt wouldn't want to bother the customer with us asking for more hardware
the CPUs they give us are Haswell top of the line i7s, and 8 gigs of RAM which is nominally sufficient for what we do (usually), but the real bottleneck is a 5400 RPM HDD plus McAfee
@MadaraUchiha I found that by switching to ultrawide I reduced the number of monitors, bezels, HDMI or DisplayPort cables, and power plugs I needed by a factor of 2
@MadaraUchiha Ah. I got around that in my old home office by building a little wooden box to raise my monitors off the desk (with holes for the cables to come out where they were needed). It also made a handy space to slide my keyboard away when I wasn't using it ... :)
heh, my Predator X34 at home (no way in hell would work give me one of these) has two very thin feet at an obtuse angle, and an excellent amount of clearance underneath the monitor, nearly a foot, so I just shove tons of junk in there between my keyboard and monitor
@djsmiley2k heh, that reminds me, there's definitely a culture of "higher-ups get better stuff" (to use MS Word and Outlook on, of course) at work; the higher-ups get those multi-monitor arm things that they can turn around a monitor for you to look at, and Aeron chairs
@allquixotic @MadaraUkuhhiha Bekuhause the kuhables are under the box and rerouted to where they are needed? You kuhan now have a monitor in the middle ... (source)
I am wondering if my simple, 15 dollar Timex watch (not a smart watch) is more powerful then the Apollo Guidance Computer (looking at operations/second, RAM, storage, etc).
@bwDraco It's not damaged. It has a hole cut in it to allow the cables to go through the desk. The hole is in the wrong place so he can't have a central monitor.
I've said this quite a few times in the past... Apple's platforms have the advantage of total vertical integration. This means streamlined performance and superior reliability. But it comes at the cost of lower flexibility and less choice.