Do 90 degree display port adapters or extensions affect g sync performance?

kofman13 · April 27

I have a monitor with only 1 display port. But i have a mac and PC that i use everyday. Currently the mac is on HDMI port and the pc is on DP for 240hz. I want both on DP. but there is only one port. I read that there are no good powered switcher boxes that will let me maintain my G SYNC performance on my acer predator monitor so i have realized the only solution left is to manually unplug the cable every day from each computer for display port. With the mac it's okay because it uses a Displayport to USB C adapter so i dont care about wearing that out unplugging and plugging everyday. But i do not want to wear out the DP port on my GTX 1070 on my windows machine since the port is already a little finicky already. So i am thinking the PC could have some sort of angle adapter or short extension so that i am unplugging/plugging into the adapter on the PC everyday instead of the actual GPU port.

Do these adapters affect G SYNC performance?

porina · April 27

Any passive adapters/extensions should be ok as long as they don't degrade the signal further. Any active processing could interfere.

Any reason you can't just keep the Mac on HDMI?

kofman13 · April 27

1 minute ago, porina said:

Any passive adapters/extensions should be ok as long as they don't degrade the signal further. Any active processing could interfere.

Any reason you can't just keep the Mac on HDMI?

i COULD keep the mac on HDMI, it's just so jarring to go to 60hz after being on 240hz on windows for a few hours. it feels like going from 60fps to 20fps. I could keep the windows on HDMI and mac on DP, but then i would miss 240hz for gaming and graphic work on windows.