Dual external monitors on laptop.

[Eric Rautenbach]

Fellow friends, I made a terrible mistake. I did a ton of research and eventually ended up buying 2 X AOC 27G2 144hz monitors for use with my work laptop. I decided on the dual monitor setup because I wanted a 1080p monitor to use with a PS5 and a nice and fast dual monitor setup for work. (I love the 1440p ultrawides but the PS5 doesn’t support 1440.
My issue:
My brand new fairly okay work Asus Zenbook with Ryzen 5 and Vega 10 graphics only has one HDMI port.
I assumed the USB-C 3.2 port would support a usb-c to displayport or hdmi cable.
True story, It doesn’t. I forgot that some usb-c’s have either thunderbolt or Displayport capability.
My question: what do I do now? I know HDMI cannot daisy chain/ support two video streams through one port. So no splitter will work. (I don’t want two mirrored displays).
My USB-c doesn’t have display output, so im pretty sure those expensive usb-c hubs with hdmi will not work.
Any ideas?
I’m even open to a suggestion of a display that’s big and wide, supports PS5, even if it’s 4k.
Ps. I bought the AOC’s from Evetech so I can still return/ swop. Fortunately I realised my mistake before I opened the box.

 

[skylix001]

Dell d6000/dell wd19/targus DOCK430USZ . These will work as display link hubs and give you 3 screen outputs, 1 will be hdmi and the other 2 will be dp, so dp to hdmi cables /adaptors will work.

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[Eric Rautenbach]

Thank you for the input. I will do some reading about the hubs you suggested. My main concern remains the passthrough of “display” data through the hub. Surely my Usb-c port has to support display or does the Hub somehow decode the info? I see you can use UsB-A limited to 60hz. That somehow defeats the purpose of buying high refresh rate displays. Looks like I will need a new laptop 🙃

 

[Confucius]

Does the laptop not have normal usb 3?

I currently have a Lenovo x1 and am making use of 4 external screens, 2 from a rct hub and then from the rct hub though usb3 to hdmi / dvi converters.

 

[skylix001]

Thank you for the input. I will do some reading about the hubs you suggested. My main concern remains the passthrough of “display” data through the hub. Surely my Usb-c port has to support display or does the Hub somehow decode the info? I see you can use UsB-A limited to 60hz. That somehow defeats the purpose of buying high refresh rate displays. Looks like I will need a new laptop [emoji854]

Ahhh forgot the limitation. Better sell the laptop and get a alienware with 2 hdmi/dp output.

Worse case run the 1 screen at 144 and the other at 60hz can remember the last time ive played a game where all the screens were needed.

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