Hook up a monitor without a graphics card

Edvarcl Heng | Mar 17, 2007

The new Samsung UMPC may be grabbing the headlines and the gawks at the Samsung booth, but it is the SyncMaster 2040UX (20-inch) and the 940UX (19-inch) that really got our jaws dropping. Special firmware within the monitor allows it to interpret video signals through the USB connection, and get this; it does not require a graphics card to process it. We like to think it's fuss-free Nvidia… erm, nirvana.

The trump card of the 2040UX and the 940UX is that an additional UXs can be daisy-chained to the first one, up to six UXs in all. Or if you can have six UXs connected directly to the PC itself. Picture quality is acceptable for simple stuff like word processing, but stuff like playing Doom 3 on it would be out of the question, since the USB connection creates a bottleneck with its paltry 480Mbps of data transfer rate.
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