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1. #Lg monitor 34 driver for mac pro#
2. #Lg monitor 34 driver for mac mac#
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Gigabyte also produces some motherboards natively support 5K output over Thunderbolt 3 – It claims to enable 4K video, and I suspect it’s possible that it supports dual stream and could drive 5K in some cases but nobody seems to be able to actually buy this card in the US or test it from what I could determine.

#Lg monitor 34 driver for mac pro#

While it doesn’t make sense to buy this monitor except for a recent generation Macbook Pro that can drive it at 5K, you will (in most cases) be able to use this as a secondary display for older machines if needed, which is nice.Īlternatives on the pc side – the Gigabyte GC-Alpine Ridge looks like it should also work, and has dual Thunderbolt 3 ports, and (seemingly) two Displayport inputs. I couldn’t get USB devices to be recognized or work, just video. Not noted on that page but tested and verified by me: my first generation 2012 Macbook Pro with Retina Display will drive the display via the Thunderbolt 3 (USB-C) to Thunderbolt 2 adapter, but only at 2560×1440. The LG UltraFine 5K will also work with older Macbook Pros I tried, but at lower resolutions.Īs noted in Apple’s support page, most Macs from the past 3 years will drive it at 4K – 3840×2160 at 60hz – the 2014 Macbook Pro I tested worked as expected. (Performance of 3440×1440 and 4K on my GPU, a 980TI, is usually about the same.) Other Compatibility Notes So I’m losing the KVM aspect with this setup – I have to actually swap the cable between the desktop and laptop.īut the gains – 5K retina resolution on the screen I use most makes a huge difference – and while I enjoyed the 21×9 aspect ratio for gaming it is much less hassle and equally nice to go back to 16×9 but up the resolution to 4K.

#Lg monitor 34 driver for mac mac#

Previously I was using the LG 34UM95 34” ultrawide monitor for this – it supported Thunderbolt 2 input from my mac and Displayport from the PC, and happily swapped the USB devices between them. I also really like having my monitor act as a USB hub and KVM since I use both a Mac laptop and a desktop PC.

#Lg monitor 34 driver for mac windows#

My challenge with it was I have a gaming PC running Windows so I can play real computer games and use my HTC Vive and I didn’t really want to have two monitors on my desk. It’s a native resolution of 5120×2880 at 27”, so it has the same screen real estate as a 27” 2560×1440 but doubling the clarity and pixels per inch. I bought the 2016 Macbook Pro a few months ago, and part of my excitement around it was the LG UltraFine 5K Display that Apple announced at the time. It worked enough of the time that I suspect swapping out my old USB-A hub may fix it. Hot swapping the cable generally worked fine, except for flakiness in recognizing USB devices, and sometimes plugging individual devices in and out of the hub fixed it. (I think the USB-A hub is the unreliable part.) That’s hard to debug or speak definitively on as I’m only using it with legacy USB-A peripherals (keyboard, mouse, speakers) that are connected to a cheap Amazon Basics hub, which is then connected via Apple’s USB-A to USB-C adapter. The USB-C hub passthrough was recognized and appeared to work, but wasn’t reliable for me on hot swaps.

I suspect most recent Intel boards with a 5-pin thunderbolt header will work, as it did for John Griffin who used a similar setup as me but with a Gigabyte motherboard.Īfter connecting the add-on card to the motherboard, you do an external connection from the Displayport on your GPU card to a mini-displayport input on this card with the included cable. I used an Asus Z270A-prime which isn’t on that list but Asus explicitly notes is compatible.