Talk:DMS-59

what's with the dell hp name dropping?
I'm pretty sure you can get these common financial workstation cards standard in IBMs, gateways, and whatever other large computer vendors there are. Originally this was a pretty sad article just mentioning nvidia, dell, and hp... I guess someone felt the urgent need to copy word for word the Nvidia quadro NVS brocure they got in their inbox... anyway, I added that I knew that two other major video card vendors sell products with this connector. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 68.100.25.16 (talk) 00:58, June 3, 2006 (UTC)

Pinout
Can't find too much info on web. If I were to buy a splitter cable DMS-59 to 2xVGA (for now) would this be a valid reference for the beginnings of a pinout on wiki? I need one anyway! (hrf) —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 87.127.160.172 (talk) 22:02, 26 March 2007 (UTC).

ok, found these. useful or not? http://support.dell.com/support/edocs/video/p57019/en/connect.htm Vesa.org has a promising document with pinout http://www.vesa.org/Public/Multidisplay/MultDspV1.pdf (hrf) --Hrf 09:19, 4 April 2007 (UTC)


 * Interesting docs. The Dell one shows that the underlying video card determines what DMS-59 adapters can be used.  That card only supports a dual DVI or a dual VGA cable, not a mixed DVI and VGA cable.  The VESA standard does not seem to include explicit support for connecting four displays, two DVI and two VGA, to one DMS-59 connector as proposed in the article.  Since some pin-outs overlap depending on which cable adapter is used, it is unclear to me if this would be possible. 204.42.20.39 16:08, 14 April 2007 (UTC)

Four monitors powered by a single DMS-59?
How would this be done?


 * I think the answer is, it can't be done. The original writer seems to have imagined that "Dual link" DVI means you can connect two displays, and thus since DMS-59 supports a pair of DVI-DL outputs it would be possible to connect a total of four displays. Instead DMS-59's 2 x DVI-DL outputs mean you can connect a pair of high resolution displays, e.g. two Apple Cinema displays through a single relatively compact connector. That's a lot of pixels, but it's not four separate displays. If someone doesn't correct me with a pointer to documentation stating otherwise, I suggest that in a week or two someone should Be Bold and just change the article to say up you can connect two displays, each of which can be VGA or DVI or even DVI Dual Link. Not four. 82.69.171.90 17:24, 20 October 2007 (UTC)


 * I've now made this change. Anyone who wants to change it back please cite a good source, every other description, not to mention all the cables you can buy indicates that it's a maximum of two displays per DMS-59 connector. 82.69.171.90 15:06, 31 October 2007 (UTC)


 * I just bought a Galaxy 61TGF4AM5UNX MDT GeForce GT 610 1GB 64-bit DDR3 PCI Express 2.0 x16 HDCP Ready Multi-display Video Card and the claim is 4 displays from two DMS-59 outputs that are built in: Featuring 2x DMS59 outputs and including 2x DMS59 to Dual DVI adapters, the Galaxy 61TGF4AM5UNX MDT GeForce GT 610 support up to four displays in a single card. Built around specially developed, cutting-edge hardware, this card overcomes the traditional limitation of two displays on the GeForce GPU by digitally splitting the two discreet internal outputs into three or even four DVI connections to enable robust multi-display capabilities normally only available in expensive commercial products. You can set up the four displays with a combined resolution of 3840x2400 in a 2x2 stack or 7680x1200 in a 4x1 span. When the top concern is maximizing desktop space to see and do more at once without switching applications, this type of MDT is a great choice.

See I don't know enough to make sense of the question of 2 displays vs. 4 out of one connector since this requires 2 outputs for the 4 displays. Diazr (talk) 02:35, 26 April 2013 (UTC)

Dates and Manufacturers?
Who built this standard, for what purpose, and when? That's what I'd like to know, and I think it should be included in the article. TechsysPete (talk) 23:11, 1 June 2008 (UTC)

EDD
I think this is also called EDD (Enhanced Dual Display). A redirect to this article would be nice. There was a deleted article, but no direct redirect to here. I see Gateway has a large monitor that used the EDD notation in it's specifications.65.4.24.7 (talk) 11:10, 27 April 2009 (UTC)


 * No, EDD is a similar but older standard. I know it because I got many DMS-59 cards here in use in my PCs, and also found some EDD cards in the trash, but the EDD connector is different and not even mechanically compatible with DMS-59. -- Alexey Topol (talk) 22:45, 12 October 2017 (UTC)

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Displayport
Nvidia NVS-300 card also supports dual displayport on DMS-59. Amazon sells DMS-59 to dual displayport cables. Also, the original molex reference says it supports two dvi-d, dvi-i, vga, or s-video in " any combination". Whitis (talk) 10:39, 17 November 2019 (UTC)