mKay1610

Hi everyone, I am a little bit confused as to whether or not I can use my 4k TV as a monitor for mostly Desktop tasks and some Video watching (no gaming, no high performance). I was using a GTX 660, which sadly does not output 4k60Hz. It can only do 4k with limited color space and 24-30HZ max., so it's not suitable for desktop use (also the colorspace conversion adds a lot of input lag, when i move the mouse). Then I saw that my iGPU (Intel HD 530, Skylake, i5 6500) is theoretically able to output 4k60Hz. I tried using it, and the highest option on 4k (3840x2160) i could choose was 30Hz. I know my TV is 4k60 compatible, it works fine on my FireTV, so it's not the TV. It should not be the iGPU either, as far as I have read. So, I tried looking up the Mainboard specs (Asus E-170E), but I couldn't find anything about the HDMI specs. Also It could just be, because I use a cheapo HDMI cable (No "High Speed" certified anything. I think it came with some kind of device in the box at some point). I don't really want to invest in a new cable, if I'm not 100% sure that my Mainboard's HDMI as well as my iGPU fully support 4k60. Does anyone have any idea what to do/try next? btw. I'm on Ubuntu MATE, kernel 5.7.

Of course, I would'nt expect any Hardware features over these cheapo things like gSync and such. My point was a different. I would never try to use these things to re-route anything from my graphics card directly to the usb display. Instead I think that, at least in WIndowed mode and in some DirectX setups (probably not DX12 or Vulkan) windows is able to buffer the rendered image of the game and make it part of it's window manager as the Windows.Forms.Form's background object of the window that you specified to render to. This would probably result in heavy frame drops, due to different refresh rates of the primary screen, the usb screen and the fps your card outputs being all completely out of sync and windows copying the image information from the device to it's window manager frame buffer, back to the usb screen. I'm not saying it's a good idea, i just think it might actually work (if shitty)

Thank you, this is kind of what i expected from these things, About the 3D rendering though: I found that under windows, when i used my GTX1060 and my iGPU and i ran a game in window mode, i could move the window over to the screen that was connected to the iGPU and it would still be rendered with my GTX. That was in windows 10 though. In windows 7, when i did the same with e.g VLC, i just got a black image where the video should be. I think the windows driver model has some room for things like this. It might be slower due to windows*s framebuffer not being in sync with the graphics cards and stuff like that.

That laptop doesn't exist. It was more or less a use case scenario where these dongles might come in handy. Thank you for trying to help me with my "problem", but it really is just about the dongles. I am interested in getting one of them, but i can't find any review of them anywhere.

I CHALLENGE YOU aka DO ALL THE RESEARCH FOR US, WE ARE TOO LAZY seriously kids, your list is far too long

So, away from all the fanciness that are expensive graphics cards, I just need another monitor connected to my Laptop with a broken HDMI port, which is like 100 years old. I've seen these relatively cheap USB to HDMI/DVI/VGA adapters, --> i do not mean USB C adapters <-- which of course are no real GPUs, instead the drivers do the work and the IC just turns the pre processed data into a display signal. Because of that I was wondering: What can you actually do with them? Can you use your internal GPU to render and just pass the pure video through? Do even videos run well? delay? Anybody has any experience with these? (I think it might be a cool Techquickie episode, as well)

I can rely to this. my parents are divorced as well, so i am roaming around two different connections. also at UNI i have like a one million mbit connection which nobody can use because the wifi always drops out^^ to everyone: if you are stuck in a shitty contract for 12 months or anything like this, this is the place to share your story

In a community of tech enthusiasts, i'm kinda curious how fast people's internet speeds are around the globe. so i will start: - Germany, at a city with high density population - 32 mbit/s DL promised, about 25 mbit/s in reality, sometimes full speed - 4mbit/s UL - maximum for simple non-commercial contracts in my area: 150mbit/s (but no port forwarding possible)

Completely discharge and then leaving the battery for weeks is the worst thing for your battery. always keep it at about 10%. otherwise they might undercharge and refuse to ever charge again! pb batteries, used in rc cars and more power consuming devices can even completely die from undercharged cells

Hey everyone. First of all, I really enjoy LTT content. So there was one thing i was thinking about, that might be a cool idea for a project: What to do with your old, but still 100% functional smartphones? Many can be jailbroken or rooted, so they can literally run any software. They come with built-in wifi, 3g, bluetooth, camera, etc... So why not turn them into IoT devices or other gadgets? for example: an old smartphone has a way better desing than a raspberry pi with the the camera attatched. plus it has an internal battery