I am reading your thunderbolt link intensively today. I just might go that way. My current desktop is HP with i5-8400 (a 2018 CPU) so it is too old to accommodate a thunderbolt card... so I figure.
But as I plot my next computer buy. ..... I am checking out what computers have thunderbolt ports for a docking station or can digest a thunderbolt card. It seems that most modern average retail computers (Dell, HP, etc) have motherboards that will not handle a thunderbolt card.
I have not built my own own computer since 2014. But perhaps I will. With a motherboard that has thunderbolt ports. Or latest version dual DisplayPorts. Or I think version 1.4 DisplayPorts. I am so done with HDMI! lolzzzzz
THANKS!
Y4ah I’m not sure what motherboards have the capability- I paid through the nose for thunderbolt 5 board, but they should drop in price at some point. I’m not sure if thunderbird 3 can handle dual monitors, it should I would assume- boards with tb3 should be pretty inexpensive- if I were to build one for general use, I would look for tb3 and skip the high price of tb5 for now. I’m not sure how far back tb goes, maybe to version 1- I would have to look into it more. If so, not sure what they are capable of. But tb3 with a hub sounds like a pretty good option for not much $$ perhaps.
I’ve only ever built 1 myself, and it was a lot of fun (although I made a huge mistake and my cooler wasn’t working unbeknownst to me, and computer kept bogging way down, freezing, and I would reboot not realizing what was wrong, until it dawned on me it was temperature related. Brand new cpu! Hope I didn’t hurt it, but took me with my addled brain about 20 minutes to realize what was going on- temps got as high as 93c 0nce I realized what was happening and checked. Uggh- huge mistake)
Anyway, happy building- hope you find a good solution to the dual monitors. The dual display ports might be all that is needed and a lot less expensive for ya.