Can you plug an HDMI expansion card into a Framework Laptop 13 with the AMD Ryzen AI 300 mainboard? I received a nice welcome email in advance of the mainboard, but a diagram in the email shows the DisplayPort capabilities of each expansion slot…
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You can! The HDMI expansion card is, internally, a DisplayPort to HDMI adapter, so every port that works for DisplayPort also works for HDMI.
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Thank you! Armed with that insight, and observing that my monitor has both HDMI and DisplayPort inputs, I ordered a DisplayPort expansion bit for my Framework 13 and popped it into one of the two UHBR20-capable ports. Wow! Is it my imagination or do I really see brighter colors, no shear, no lag?! So silly to have been burning battery to power an HDMI transformer all this time when a DisplayPort adapter would have served better. Framework’s catalog writers could liven up the shopping page by pointing out stuff like this.
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Even better, see if your monitor have a “usb type c” input!
That is Display Output, not DisplayPort
That is Display Output, not DisplayPort
@Destroya that was the source of my misunderstanding. In each box, the display output was a flavor of DisplayPort. I understood from the diagram that the AI 300’s only “display output” was DisplayPort. Which now I understand to be true only in a narrow, pedantic sense that need not greatly concern someone who has an HDMI expansion thingy at hand.