Am Samstag, 8. Juni 2024, 04:05:17 MESZ schrieb Dale:
> > DisplayPort supports daisy-chaining. So if you do get another monitor some > > day, look for one that has this feature and you can drive two monitors > > with > > one port on the PC. > > That's something I didn't know. I wondered why they had that when a > HDMI port is about the same size and can handle about the same > resolution. It has abilities HDMI doesn't. Neat. :-D Polemically speaking, HDMI is designed for the concerns of the MAFIA (Music and Film Industry of America) with stuff like DRM. DisplayPort is technically the better protocol, for example with more bandwidth and it is open. There was news recently that the HDMI forum would not allow AMD to implement HDMI 2.1 in its open source driver, which means no 4K 120 Hz for Linux users. > Sadly, the CPU I got is for processing only, no video support it says. So you got an F model? > > But what I also just remembered: only the ×16 GPU slot and the primary M.2 > > slots (which are often one gen faster than the other M.2 slots) are > > connected to the CPU via dedicated links. All other PCIe slots are behind > > the chipset. And that in turn is connected to the CPU via a PCIe 4.0×4 > > link. This is probably the technical reason why there are so few boards > > with slots wider than ×4 – there is just no way to make use of them, > > because they all most go through that ×4 bottleneck to the CPU. > > > > ┌───┐ 5.0×4 ┌───┐ 4.0×4 ┌─────────┐ ┌───┐ > > │M.2┝=======┥CPU┝━━━━━━━┥ Chipset ┝━━━┥M.2│ > > └───┘ └─┰─┘ └─┰─────┰─┘ └───┘ > > > > 5.0×16┃ ┃ ┃ > > > > ┌─┸─┐ ┌────┸─┐ ┌─┸────┐ > > │GPU│ │PCIe 1│ │PCIe 2│ > > └───┘ └──────┘ └──────┘ > > […] > > Nice block diagram. You use software to make that? Yes, vim’s builtin digraph feature. O:-) -- Team work: Everyone does what he wants, nobody does what he should, and all play along.
