Product Description

EVGA introduces the UV Plus+ family: take any available USB port on your desktop or notebook and turn it into an additional video output for use with another display. With a small footprint and a unique magnetic-stackable UV Plus+ allows for additional displays to increase productivity by expanding, rotating, or mirroring your virtual workspace through an easy to understand and operate software interface. UV Plus+ is powered by USB and uses Lossless Compression for transferring video signal which provides a crystal clear viewing experience on your additional display. The GPU-less design utilizes a virtual driver and high-performance DDR memory with full support for Windows Vista Aero and high resolution capabilities. With all of these features in one tiny package, the EVGA UV Plus+ is the perfect, easy solution for an additional monitor in only minutes.

Product Details

• Brand: EVGA
• Model: 100-U2-UV12-A1
• Dimensions: 2.36" h x 6.69" w x 11.02" l, .80 pounds

Features

• UV Plus+ USB VGA Adapter

Customer Reviews

I like it, but I want to give you some cautions about using it!
I use this product with a Vista x64 service pack 1 operating system on a Toshiba laptop. The product does have x64 bit drivers on the download site. Good news for those of us that have 64-bit systems; it also ships with 32-bit drivers. I use it as a third screen for my laptop. The first is the LCD on the laptop, the second comes from the laptop output, and the third is this USB device. It works great for word processing, spreadsheets, browsing the web, etc. However, you DO NOT want to use it with videos. The screen may not refresh at all with videos. I was watching a recorded slide presentation and although the speaker kept talking the slide never changed. As soon as a move the presentation video to another monitor, everything worked fine. Also, some rapidly changing content, like animations in web pages, operating system installation, etc. probably won't work well. So, this is really for productivity applications - scrolling through a Word document or Excel spreadsheet works just fine. Just don't expect to use it for video games, videos, animations, and sometimes if you have a lot on the screen, you can get some static display. Obviously wouldn't be good for watching the stock exchange or real-time data like that.

Update 2009.4.07 - Doesn't work on Windows 7 Beta very well. EVGA says they don't officially support Windows 7 yet, so you shouldn't expect that it will work at all. I was able to get it to actually display an image by using the Vista driver, but the mouse point often froze on the screen. I downloaded a new driver from EVGA and that one wouldn't let you install on Windows 7. I think they know there are problems. So, I have stopped using it until the Windows 7 driver comes out. Still, it worked well on Vista, with those cautions I wrote about previously.

I am back to using my Matrox Dual Head 2 Go adapter Matrox D2GA2AIF DualHead2Go Analog Edition Display Duplexer for PC and Mac. That is working well, but since it takes multiple monitors and makes them a single monitor, it isn't the same as being able to have three totally independent displays - like I could with the EVGA. Also, there is a new model EVGA 100-U2-UV16-A1 UV Plus USB VGA Adapter for Multiple Displays Supporting Up to 1600x1200 Resolution (Black). Right now the reviews look pretty good. You might want to check that out.

Blue Screen of Death
I bought this device to adapt a new Toshiba laptop running 32-bit windows to the two monitors I was running with my previous computer. It intermittently (sometimes frequently) crashes Windows, and tech support has no suggestions beyond reloading the drivers. To add insult to injury, they spam me every week now. This product has wasted my time and money.

Works as advertised
Easy to set up and works well with my Samsung Monitor at 1400x900. Video's from the Internet run smoothly. No problems in the two weeks I've used it.