Two Monitors to 590-p0000a PC

[Sam-Sam-44]

I Know nothing about hooking up two monitors - before I shop for a 2nd Monitor, I want to know something about it.  The plan is to use a 2nd monitor in vertical orientation for seeing larger images without having to scroll up and down.

The PC that HP sold me in late 2018 DOES NOT HAVE A DISPLAY PORT!  It has HDMI and VGA - Isn't VGA ancient, wouldn't it be slow, or lack band width?   I have already got conflicting information from two HP sources.  The guy at HP Smart Friend just told me I can use a split cable from the single HDMI port to run two monitors.   That doesn't sound right.  Where-as a post on this site for an earlier 570pc said you had to use both the HDMI AND VGA  to run two monitors.

  What about USB 3.1?  Can you run a monitor with that? 

Thanks, Sam-Sam

[banhien]

@Sam-Sam-44 

Its specs

          https://support.hp.com/au-en/document/c06000982

It has following ports at its back

• (1) VGA port
• (1) HDMI 1.4/HDCP 2.2
• (1) USB 3.1 Gen 1 Type-A port
• (5) USB 2.0 Type-A ports
• (3) Audio ports
• (1) RJ-45 port

You can connect 2 monitors using 2 ports above. Note HDMI and VGA natively, no conversions.

If you need more, you can add a video card to your machine and it will automatically disable 2 ports above. Please note your machine only has 310W PSU.

Regards.

[Sam-Sam-44]

This answer has not helped me.  More than a month and I am still stymied and not shopping for a 2nd monitor because of the inadequacy of the answer.  I cannot believe I'm being told to use an ancient analogue connection for a 2nd monitor, on a barely 2 year old computer!  And you gave me NO assurance about why this is or how much, or not,  the display quality would be reduced by having to go through analogue.

I said from the front I don't know about computers, and a little elaboration would have helped.  Was I that stupid to go the local big box store and buy a $500 plus desktop computer and ASSUME it would have adequate, modern connections to hook up a 2nd monitor?  Just giving me specs does not half answer the question.  

[banhien]

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@Sam-Sam-44 wrote:

...  I cannot believe I'm being told to use an ancient analogue connection for a 2nd monitor, on a barely 2 year old computer! ..

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@Sam-Sam-44 

Well, that is your belief. I can't do anything about that.

Regards.

[Sam-Sam-44]

I am fed up.  Since you have not reassured me about adequate options for connecting two monitors in the HP computer I was sold, please tell me where to address a complaint to HP, or a forum to discuss this confusion and frustration where there are more reply's than the single, narrow one you gave.