Is it possible to connect 4 monitors to a computer without a discrete graphics card?

Question

Video cards

Gentlemen, experts, It is
required to connect four FullHD monitors to a computer on Debian 8. In view of the fact that only 2D graphics processing is needed, I don’t want to take a discrete video card, besides, it makes noise, heats up, and may even break down. I think to take a mini-PC, for example, Shuttle XH170 . In general, some compact computer, if only there were at least two video outputs: HDMI - we connect one of the monitors to it and DisplayPort 1.2 - we connect the remaining three monitors to it in a cascade (we use MST ). Or maybe only one DisplayPort 1.2 video output plus a four-port MST hub.
Attention question!
Will the integrated graphics of any Intel Core i5/7 processor handle this configuration? They definitely hold 4K at 60 frames. And do I need to pay attention to the chipset? Someone tested or can test such a scheme, then please share the results.

Answer 1

Yes. Can. Just check that there is DisplayPort 1.2, not 1.0
Somehow confusing in the specs "(1)HDMI + (2)DisplayPort support triple independent display 4K/2K playback
Integrated in CPU". Maybe they offer 3 monitors to plug into 3 different ports.

Answer 2

You can use https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/nuc/nuc-ki...
there are 3 video outputs, there is also Thunderbolt 3, you can theoretically connect up to 6 displays through one Thunderbolt.

Answer 3

Conducted an experiment.
I took a Gigabyte GB-BSi3HA-6100 with an Intel Skylake i3-6100U processor and assembled the following scheme:
Mini DisplayPort -> monitor 1 -> monitor 2 -> monitor 3;
HDMI -> monitor 4.
Debian sees all four monitors, but the image is displayed only on the first three (stretched the desktop), monitor 4 is in the "off" state. When you try to enable it, a message appears that the configuration cannot be applied, the reason is either too high a resolution, or more screens than the video card supports.
For the sake of testing the first theory, I lowered the resolution, but the fourth monitor did not turn on.
If you turn off monitor 3, then monitor 4 turns on without problems, but the result is the same - a maximum of three simultaneously working monitors.

Answer 4

pup51k , what interface did you use to connect monitor 3? I'm thinking of taking a monitor with MST in order to connect the old one, which has only VGA and DVI, as a second monitor. I have not yet found the exact information whether it will work or only via DP it is necessary to connect at all.