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LG UltraFine 5K Build

The UP2715K is the best supported 5K display at the moment. I don't think anyone has had luck with the HP display on a Hackintosh yet. You'll need to use a Nvidia GPU with two DisplayPorts to drive it at full resolution.

Thunderbolt isn't relevant for desktop machines and graphic cards won't be able to output Thunderbolt in the near future. You might have luck using the Gigabyte Alpine Ridge card to inject two DP streams, but no one has tested this so far.
 
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It's probably a stupid question but when you said "I don't think anyone has had luck with the HP display on a Hackintosh yet" it's to say there is no chance to work with this hackintosh and this HP Display, or Nobody had the chance to have this screen (it is a very good screen) ?
 
Remi8 said:
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It's probably a stupid question but when you said "I don't think anyone has had luck with the HP display on a Hackintosh yet" it's to say there is no chance to work with this hackintosh and this HP Display, or Nobody had the chance to have this screen (it is a very good screen) ?
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I have the HP screen and there is zero chance you are going to get it to work in the current builds of Sierra. I tried everything. I bought a Dell UP2715K and it worked out of the gate with the noted caveat of keeping the monitor off until macOS loads.
 
Fl0r!an said:
The UP2715K is the best supported 5K display at the moment. I don't think anyone has had luck with the HP display on a Hackintosh yet. You'll need to use a Nvidia GPU with two DisplayPorts to drive it at full resolution.

Thunderbolt isn't relevant for desktop machines and graphic cards won't be able to output Thunderbolt in the near future. You might have luck using the Gigabyte Alpine Ridge card to inject two DP streams, but no one has tested this so far.
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If Gigabyte Alpine Ridge card works, LG UltraFine 5K might be the best choice. Giga did mention '5K' in product page http://www.gigabyte.com/products/product-page.aspx?pid=5906#ov

How much can you get the two respectively? Here the Dell one costs 12000+ CNY and the LG one costs 7600 CNY.
 
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Sadly he doesn't show his DisplayPort pass throughs or explain how if he had to do anything to route them to one thunderbolt port. Unless you can translate?
 
LostVector said:
Sadly he doesn't show his DisplayPort pass throughs or explain how if he had to do anything to route them to one thunderbolt port. Unless you can translate?
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He doesn't show. IMO, we should connect two DP-out on discrete GFX card to the two DP-in on GC-Alpine Ridge, and then connect GC-Alpine Ridge to LG UF 5K with one TB3.

PS. your GFX card should at least provide 2 DP port. My GTX 950 won't work.

PPS. Only Windows compatibility is confirmed. Hackintosh compat is promising but not confirmed.

BTW, to adjust brightness in Windows (without Boot Camp), this (https://github.com/unknownzerx/lguf-brightness/releases) also works, which is originally written for the 4K one.
 
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ffffwh said:
He doesn't show. IMO, we should connect two DP-out on discrete GFX card to the two DP-in on GC-Alpine Ridge, and then connect GC-Alpine Ridge to LG UF 5K with one TB3.

PS. your GFX card should at least provide 2 DP port. My GTX 950 won't work.

PPS. Only Windows compatibility is confirmed. Hackintosh compat is promising but not confirmed.

BTW, to adjust brightness in Windows (without Boot Camp), this (https://github.com/unknownzerx/lguf-brightness/releases) also works, which is originally written for the 4K one.
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Yes, obviously that's how it should work, but he should show it in action. Speculation is not the point here. There are two thunderbolt outs, so do they both route to one of the ports? which one? Is it selectable?
 
Thanks for the extra info ffffwh! It's promising news but we obviously need more evidence and documentation to work out all the details. The display is on sale for under $1K for a few more months so hopefully people will get to tinker with it more and get thing like Hackintosh support working.
 
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