Thunderbolt Monitors

November 20, 2016

I'm looking at the LG 21:9 UltraWide 34UM95 thunderbolt monitor. My plan is to have two of these daisy-chained to a PC, but I have 2 questions about them:

Will a second thunderbolt port be required to support the devices?
Will the USB ports function properly on the second monitor?

Thanks for any help.

jj9987 · November 20, 2016

19 minutes ago, OTheB said:

I'm looking at the LG 21:9 UltraWide 34UM95 thunderbolt monitor. My plan is to have two of these daisy-chained to a PC, but I have 2 questions about them:

Will a second thunderbolt port be required to support the devices?

Will the USB ports function properly on the second monitor?

Thanks for any help.

34UM95 has 2 thunderbolt ports, one is for pass-through/daisy-chain. You can connect 2nd display via that one.

And yes, both USB ports will work fine too

November 20, 2016

27 minutes ago, jj9987 said:

34UM95 has 2 thunderbolt ports, one is for pass-through/daisy-chain. You can connect 2nd display via that one.

And yes, both USB ports will work fine too

I know about the daisy-chain thing, but I've been told that even when only one thunderbolt port on the PC is being used, multiple ports might be needed if one is to use extra devices out of one port.

I've also been told that the CPU requires integrated graphics to run thunderbolt? Or if I were to connect the GPU to the TB expansion card via displayport cables, would that remove the need for graphics on the CPU? One would expect so as I'm looking at a Gigabyte TB expansion card that works on a listed selection of X99 Motherboards, and there are no X99 CPUs with integrated graphics. Am I correct here?

EDIT: One other quick question: What's a minimum required GPU to run 2 of these monitors reasonably under light gaming, and heavy gaming respectively? I have a GTX 1080 and GTX 1060 for the latter, but I highly doubt my little GTX 570 will handle it, even in low load. What's a good value replacement for low load use with such monitors? AMD or Nvidia is fine. The most intensive thing I can imagine being done on it is Minecraft.