Plugable USB 2.0 to HDMI, DVI, or VGA I Multi-Monitor External Video Graphics Card Adapter up to 1920x1080 Supports Windows 11, 10, 8.1, 7, XP, Mac, and ChromeOS

I'm very satisfied with the Plugable UGA-165 USB 2.0 to VGA/DVI/HDMI Adapter. It works perfectly and installed with no problems. Matter of fact, the moment I plugged in the USB connection to my PC, the drivers downloaded automatically so I didn't need to use the CD that came with the product, nor did I need the link provided in e-mail by Plugable Technologies (they wrote even before the product arrived). Btw, their website was an excellent source of information about this product and helped me in my decision to buy. My system: Dell Inspiron 660 Desktop PC Intel Core i3-3240 CPU @3.40 GHz 8 GB RAM 64-bit OS Windows 7 Home Premium with Service Pack 1 Intel HD Graphics w/1696 MB total available Graphics Memory I'm running extended desktop on two Viewsonic VA2246M 22-inch 1080p monitors using the Dell's VGA output to one and the Dell's HDMI to the other through an HDMI-to-DVI adapter (these Viewsonics don't have HDMI inputs). I'm now using the HDMI output of the Plugable UGA-165 connected to one of the Dell's USB 2.0 ports. I have an Orion (Sansui) HDTV with HDMI input in my computer area and the Plugable is supplying video to that as the "third" monitor of the Dell's extended desktop display. Windows Control Panel 'Display' /Change Display Settings was easy to setup and manipulate with the third monitor in the chain. It recognized it immediately. All monitors are running at 1920x1080 resolution. There is no distinguishable lag in the display running off of the Plugable UGA-165. I noticed that the LED light on the Plugable blinked a lot whenever there was video activity on the monitor for which it was providing the signal. Not a problem at all. I assume the LED light was just "eye candy" indicating processing activity. For a test I played a video stream on Windows Media Player and positioned the player's video playback "box" between the Orion and one of the Viewsonic's (a sort of split screen). There was a slight time-delay on the Plugable. I have no way to measure it, but let's just say it was an eye blink slower than the VGA and/or DVI supplied monitors. Again, no problem at all in my opinion. The Plugable UGA-165 does get a tad bit warm when on. But then, so do other devices plugged into the UBS 2.0 or 3.0 ports. It's a worthy and value-packed investment. I can see it being very beneficial in a number of video/PC environments, particularly those who do video editing and want to have several programs open at once. Even my little Dell with an Intel i3 holds up fairly well when each of the (now) three screens have something running in them (Adobe Premiere Elements editing program, Photoshop, and Acoustica Mixcraft6). It is definitely a great product and opened up a lot of visual landscape at my computer workstation.

I paired this with a wireless USB network hub from IOGEAR and driving a TCL LED HDTV at 768x1360. [[ASIN:B0058DN1Q4 IOGEAR Wireless 4-Port USB Sharing Station GUWIP204 (Black)] This pair works together nicely. I note that movies ported through USB this way are a bit choppy, the mouse as well if I am tying up USB with a movie. Note this is the roughest test I could possibly do with this - as the Pluggable box has a frame buffer in it and only pixel change information is sent via USB. On a movie, every pixel is constantly changing. Note too I conducted my tests using the Pluggable converter through the IOGear wireless port run as an ad-hoc network. Personally, I was amazed it worked at all... much less nearly full speed. For normal windows, it appears as if the secondary monitor was hardwired to the system. What I am trying to do is build a podium setup where I can do presentations without having any wires to the podium, as well as adapt to whatever display technology the venue uses. VGA is pretty common in the venues I have seen. Here's another nice thing about this Pluggable device.. it has a mini 5-pin USB jack for the USB connection, as well as your standard DB-15 VGA connector. It draws its power from USB, so there is no wall-wart to break or lose. The USB jack lets you disconnect all cabling from the box so you don't end up twisting the cable repeatedly at the same place which inevitably leads to broken cable. If you do succeed in breaking your USB cable, its the standard USB-A (Male) to USB-Mini 5-pin (male). One of the most common USB cables out there. I have left my box on for hours and was pleased to see it does NOT run hot. It should last a long time... probably longer than the computer I bought it for. Note I am still on a learning curve with the IOGear unit, as it has a few quirks I am learning how to work with, however this pluggable USB-VGA converter has been very resilient. I note that it has a frame buffer internal to it, so in the event it loses signal, it continues to display the last image info sent to it. Since it is powered from USB, if you are powering this through a powered hub and turn off the main computer, the pluggable continues to feed the last image in its buffer to the monitor. Keep this in mind if you want the monitor to auto poweroff on a loss-of-signal cue. You probably do not want to run this from a hub anyway as you will want full USB bandwidth for it. Personally, I consider the retention of image a nice feature as sometimes I may have need to put an image up on I noted during the testing with the wireless link, I caused dropouts and reconnects which the pluggable handled quite gracefully ( a USB memory chip and USB mouse did as well ). Thanks to its buffer, there was no abrupt tears or blanking of the picture during signal problems. The last good image stayed on the screen until new data arrived. I am running WIN7. Installation was a snap. Be online when you plug this adapter into your machine for the first time and Microsoft will recognize it and download the latest driver for you and ( with your admin password ) install it. If you can not get online or have an earlier version of windows, a CDROM of the driver is included with the package. My CDROM is still in its unopened package. They provide one sheet of instructions - and if you are running WIN7, and have read this far, you already know how to get it running. This is one of those designs that is so intuitive you know exactly what to do with it when you see it. I am very pleased with this. Most of all I am pleased with what I didn't get - lots of annoying and worrisome windows warning me of things I know nothing about... I have had this for two days now, and have gone from newbie to knowing what to do with this thing without one error window or bluescreen - and believe me I have done my share of plugging and unplugging things out of order. So far this has recovered gracefully from everything I have thrown at it.

The use of a second monitor has been an integral part of my computing experience for a few years now in both desktop and laptop (at home or work). I have recently begun contemplating the use of a third display (and possibly more) ever since I have begun using virtual machines extensively. To my dismay I found out that the laptop I use as my main machine (3 yr old model) does not support the use of both its graphics output ports (VGA + HDMI) at the same time. Conveniently enough at roughly the same time period I came across the entry for the plugable USB2 UGA multi-display adapter in amazon. I thought it was worth a try as the price was not prohibitive for a bit of experimentation. I was positively impressed by the email I received before the product was delivered pointing me towards more online information as well as the latest drivers (thumbs up for good customer support). When the UGA adapter arrived, the installation process in Windows 7 Ultimate went without any problems whatsoever. The integration with the graphics interface in windows is flawless as far as I am concerned. On the down side I have observed a bit of a lag upon occasion on the third display (the one connected on the USB port via the adapter) expecially when playing back video on this display with loads of other things going on in the laptop. I take this to mean that there is some computing overhead in the use of the UGA adapter but I have not looked into this any further as it does not bother me for my intended use of the product. I find it really interesting (and convenient for my case) that when I am running a virtual machine (for example linux) and I have this displayed in the monitor connected to the UGA adapter there is no detectable lag even when playing video in the virtual machine (the device driver for the adapter is still running in the host system which for my case in Win 7). Summarizing, I find the UGA adapter very usefull with right pricing and up to spec operation.

well the first time I tried it after the downloads from the manufacturers website ...my whole computer just crashed on me! Obviously coincidental, what I did was delete the files sent to me and rebooted...all good again. I went back and did it all again and hey presto - FANTASTIC, easy and fully recommended for anyone - good picture, good response and I made a good purchase. No worries.

The item arrived earlier than expected. The device was extremely easy to install. 3 monitors plus my laptop screen, total if 4 monitors and they are working great with great resolutions. Highly recommended.

Die Dinger funktionieren einfach. Jetzt habe ich mir noch einen für die Arbeit bestellt. 1 1 1 1 1 1

A bit big and clunky, but works well