Apple Thunderbolt Display doesn't work with the Titan-Ridge card. So, you need a Thunderbolt expansion card and a motherboard with a Thunderbolt header on it. Apple Thunderbolt Display is not just a regular monitor, it is a Thunderbolt device and needs a Thunderbolt supported output.

If you want to use your Apple Thunderbolt Display with a modern PC motherboard & GPU, no converters or adapters will work to use it in standard display outputs of your motherboard or GPU has. I luckily read tons of other geek forums, reviews and watched YouTube videos to buy the right PC parts that will able to work with displays. I am a 3D motion designer and, not being able to use Nvidia GPUs and ridiculously over-priced new Mac Pro's forced me to this decision.Īnd in my new voyage, I desperately want to keep using my two Apple Thunderbolt Displays. I have migrated from Mac to PC after 20 years, this week. And there's no guaranteed compatibility with the Apple adapter and PCs or the Apple TB monitor and PCs, so if it doesn't work it doesn't work. Obviously, it won't pass any power into the PC through this method, so if you need power this won't work. Thunderbolt 3 to Thunderbolt 2 adapter is needed, and then you just plug the TB3 end to the PC and the TB2 end plugs into the monitor's cable. If you're still committed to using the TB display with a PC, then you should check that the PC has a Thunderbolt port. Thunderbolt is of course a separate thing. So it would always be better to use that dock with a USB-C port (that supports Displayport), but it can be used with a USB-A 3.0 equipped computer if need be, a common need in enterprise settings is to support more devices, even older ones. Which means it can use a DP link without using up the USB data stream. USB-C has what's called alt (alternate) mode, and the main use of alt mode is Displayport.

What it means is that you can connect a USB-A computer (as long as it's USB 3.0) and it will share the video link with the USB data, which is not ideal, you will lose data speeds and it has to compress the signal and reduce it, etc. No Thunderbolt on that dock.ĭisplaylink is what some docks and adapters use to connect to displays over a purely USB data link.

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