Any Triple Output Motherboard out there?

[Siliconbits]

I am looking for a motherboard that can output to 2 DVI and one HDMI without a video card. The only one that I've found capable of doing this is the M2N-VM HDMI. But reviews of the DVI version make me fear the worse especially over LAN connectivity... So question is whether there might be other options out there.

 

[lopri]

Not that I know of.

 

[cmrmrc]

M2A-VM HDMI
M3A78-EMH HDMI
M3N78-EMH HDMI

 

[Siliconbits]

None of them appears to be compatible with a low profile HTPC case...

 

[deruberhanyok]

Where did you find information saying that any of those are capable of three digital outputs simultaneously?

The M2N-VM HDMI mentioned in the original post only has two digital video outputs on it - one DVI and one HDMI - and they don't work simultaneously according to the website. As far as I know all of the motherboards mentioned are limited to one digital video output and one analog video output for dual-display setups.

The only board I can think of that has three digital video outputs on it is Asus' new M3A78-EM micro ATX board (DVI, HDMI and DisplayPort outputs onboard). I just upgraded my DVR to a system based around that board last night but I haven't powered it up yet. I can't recall from the manual but I'm pretty sure it has the same output limitations. I didn't check since, again, that is a capability of the chipset and not, afaik, something that could be changed via a motherboard implementation.

If you want triple outputs in a low profile HTPC case you're going to want a 780G board with a DVI output in the backplane AND a low profile Radeon 3450/3470 with two digital outputs. Newegg has a listing for such a card.

You could then enable surroundview (supported on ATI motherboards when an ATI video card is present) and either 1: use the DVI and HDMI output from the card and the DVI from the motherboard or 2: use the HDMI from the motherboard, DVI from the video card and get an HDMI <-> DVI cable to use with the HDMI output on the video card to your DVI device.

 

[Siliconbits]

Just to be clear.. I am not looking for all three outputs to function simultaneously... I understand this is near impossible to do without a low profile video card. deruberhanyok... Thanks for your feedback btw.

Also I was wondering whether someone could point me to a website where I can find more information about the power consumption of these motherboards.

 

[deruberhanyok]

Ah, that's my mistake then. I still think the only one with three digital video outs of any sort is the one I mentioned above.

Anandtech ought to have a roundup of several micro ATX boards at some point, but I haven't seen a lot of articles aside from the initial round of 780g reviews (and most of those cover the gigabyte board).

For boards based on the previous gen AM2 chipsets (AMD 690, nvidia 7050) there might be more out there... Tech Report has some numbers from the 690 chipset, though it seems that most websites just glaze over these chipsets for some reason. There's at least more info on the 780g than there has been in previous iterations.