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I have a Dell Precision 3630 desktop. It comes with 2 DisplayPorts. I need 4 monitors. Is there a way to make it support 4 monitors?

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You clearly have space for expansion - you use the PCIe slot to add a video card, even a cheap one and it'll get you the ports you need. I think even a single slot one should support 2 monitors and likely be better than the onboard one. Most modern systems will let you use 'both'. Its worth remembering unless set explicitly, an application will run on the card that the display is on

The other option, if supported is to see if your GPU supports MST (or multi stream transport). Some monitors will let you daisy chain, or there could be dongles that support this. The trade off is your 'maximum' resolution or refresh rate may be limited - for example if you can power one UHD/60HZ display normally - you can split that to 2 UHD/30 or (assuming your hardware supports it) - 2-4 1080p 60 displays. You can't however run 'more' than the maximum resolution/refresh rate combination your video output supports.

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