Thunderbolt Cinema Display

[clickclickw00t]

A very generous friend and video editor gifted me his old 27 inch Apple Thunderbolt Display. I have a hackintosh with the following setup:

Intel i7-2600k 3.4ghz
Corsair Vengeance 16GB (4x4GB) 240-pin DDR3 1600 RAM
XFX Radeon HD 6770 Video Card (with 5x mini-displayport, and flashed to 5770 firmware)
Sony Slim DVD+R 8X Drive
Gigabyte GA-Z68MA-D2H Motherboard

I know that the only way to get it working is to update to a motherboard with displayport, or a GPU (which doesn't exist). So I ask you my fellow hack friends, what is the best mobo to get to keep my costs to a minimum (not have to replace CPU, GPU, RAM, etc). I wouldn't mind spending 250 for a mobo if I knew for a fact it would work. I do not game or do anything crazy, but I do edit go-pro and video footage so I would need it to be able to support at least 2k video.

Thanks!

 

[Uwillparish]

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XFX Radeon HD 6770 Video Card (with 5x displayport, and flashed to 5770 firmware)
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I know that the only way to get it working is to update to a motherboard with displayport, or a GPU (which doesn't exist)
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Is that a double negative?

 

[clickclickw00t]

Is that a double negative?

It has 5 mini display ports

 

[Uwillparish]

It has 5 mini display ports

and the apple display uses full-sized? get some adapters

 

[clickclickw00t]

No, the apple display uses Thunderbolt. It is not compatible with mini-DP. This is a well-documented issue. I'm looking for a Thunderbolt compatible motherboard.

 

[Uwillparish]

No, the apple display uses Thunderbolt. It is not compatible with mini-DP. This is a well-documented issue. I'm looking for a Thunderbolt compatible motherboard.

The older ones dont and i didnt see the thunderbolt, Computer - 1 Eyes - 0

 

[clickclickw00t]

The older ones dont and i didnt see the thunderbolt, Computer - 1 Eyes - 0

No problem. I really hope someone can help me out for this. I'm looking at four options really:

1) leave my hack pro running as my home server (15TB space) and use the Thunderbolt display with my 2011 Macbook pro
2) buy a new mobo with thunderbolt out and hope it works
3) go crazy and try and replace the thunderbolt cable coming out of my 27 ACD with a minidisplayport cable (really dont wanna do this)
4) sell this one and and/or trade it for a Displayport Cinemadisplay.

 

[clickclickw00t]

bumpppp anyone have any ideas?

 

[clickclickw00t]

bumpity

 

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