Anyone using 4 or 5 monitors in Windows, with two or three coming from a USB4 hub?

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Just planning for the future on delivery. And don’t want to waste time wiring things up if this won’t work…

I’m wondering will the hardware be able to handle this combo of display needs under Windows 11 Pro:

#1: 2560x1440, 29.95 or 30Hz, 10-bit or 8-bit, from mainboard DisplayPort connection
#2: 3840x2160, 60Hz, 10-bit HDR, from mainboard HDMI connection
#3: 1920x1080, 60Hz, 8-bit, from USB4 hub to DisplayPort or HDMI
#4: 1920x1080, 60Hz, 8-bit, Inverted Landscape, from USB4 hub to DisplayPort or HDMI
#5: 1200x1920, 59.95Hz, 8-bit, Inverted Portrait, from USB4 hub to DisplayPort or HDMI

Where as noted in the list but I’ll point out, I’m planning that displays #3 - #5 would come from a USB4 hub.

I’m able to do this now with 2 connections from my NVIDIA 4060 LP, 2 connections from my i7-12700K MB using its integrated graphics out only because the other two 4060 DP connections feed the Thunberbolt 4 card, one connection from the Thunderbolt 4 card to a TB4 Hub.

Since the 395 APU should have comparable perf as the GeForce 4060, CPU is faster, and USB4 is comparable (faster?) than TB4, I’m guessing so and hoping so. But dunno.

Can anyone advise? Thanx!

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5 is definitely not happening, the igpu in the fw desktop can do 4 displays max, same as consumer nvidia gpus and amd gpus since the rx 7000 series (higher end amd cards used to be able to do 6 before the rx 7000 series). This is kind of annoying (fellow 5 display user here).

Fortunately for tertiary displays displaylink works quite well, so using a displaylink adabter/dock for display number 5 (and maybe 3 and 4 so you don’t waste all your usb4 ports on displays) is quite viable.

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Much appreciated and thanks Adrian!