Hello everyone. I’m seriously considering a 3 monitor upgrade. At present I have one main screen, one for navigation (LNM) and two touchscreens for Air Manager, so no free ports on my Nvidia 3070 card. I’m asking for solutions please, a second, preferably cheap card, my AM screens run at less than 30 fps. Or maybe something like Spacedesk. I would really appreciate any suggestions.
Do you have any graphics on your CPU?
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Hi Sling, I hadn’t thought about that but I’ll be able to give more info of exactly what I’m using when I get back home. I will let you know in three weeks. I was just seeing what the general opinion was. Many thanks for your quick and thought inspiring response.
You can grab a hdmi/dp splitter for your touchscreens.
Or find a BT/WiFi tablet.
I don’t think high FPS is prio number one with airmanager and or LNM.
Good luck and happy 
The reason I ask is I have two extras on the motherboard from the CPU, 1 X DP and 1 X HDMI. I picked up a 3 way DP hub for a bargain $17. So on top of the 4 from my gfx card I have 4 extras which are great for low demand stuff like Air Manager panels or LNM etc.
If you don’t have any integrated ports then it’s either another card (check the driver will be compatible before purchase and that you have a suitable spare PCI-e slot for one and it will physically fit), usb to hdmi adapters or wireless displays such as via Spacedesk.
Thank you Sling, I’ll take a look and let you know here, it may help others also.
I run four monitors. I am blessed that I have a 4090 and an AMD 7800X3D CPU. And I realize your situation is a bit different. However, I wanted to throw out my experience using the CPU’s GPU for my fourth monitor. I have 3 TVs that wrap around (they are only 32", but do quite well). I then have an LG superwide monitor that I use as a fourth monitor. I only put cockpit screens on this–no scenery. I mainly fly the FBW 32x and I load 5 pop-outs on the fourth screen along with Pilot2ATC. I enabled the Graphics in the BIOS and I connect the fourth superwide to the motherboard HDMI port. It does save FPS and free up the main GPU for the main scenery. And it keeps up just fine. My point is that these sorts of cockpit guages/screens do take up processing power, and if you can offload that to another GPU, you may be able to help your current GPU.
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Thank you bigforksmo,
That is an impressive touch screen. I think that I’ll look for a compatible extra gpu then.
Thanks again.
Don’t think that’s a touch screen at that size/aspect ratio. Notice it’s just popouts with no controls.
Yes, thought it was massive.
Hi
I have a I9 Intel 32 gb and a nvidia 3080,and are using all 4 output.
I bought a Nvidia 1060 and plought it in the spare PCIe slot.
It ran instaly with no drivers installert.
It gav me 3 extra outputs.
One off them is running matrix triple head2go,
witch gives 3 screens out off a single output.
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That’s a super rig, KilljoyzxDit, it must have taken you ages ! What is good for me is that while my CPU is i7, the rest is quite similar and I have found a secondhand RTX 1030 so it should be o.k…
So thanks for your input.
Correct, no touchscreens, just use the widescreen for my instruments, Pilot2ATC and a couple browser windows for digital ATIS or Navigraph.
I am running the StarTech USB to two HDMI my G1000s along with my triple 55s. Works great.
I use 1 matrox triplehead2go it uses 1 displayport on the graphicscard and output on 3 monitors ( dvi )
connected as one.
Had my eye on this this for long time and few weeks ago i decided to buy one and so far so good
Im very happy with this buy although they do not come cheap and the ones i bought are almost end of live, also no software needed as the are plug and play.
I play in windowed mode but i do think the screens are best if they are the same brand and model.
Also there is a new version which is full display port on in and output which makes it possible to connect tv screens to it but they are nore expensive.