Gigabyte Thunderbolt motherboards with support for 4K resolution displays
GIGABYTE has announced that the new dual Thunderbolt series motherboards will also support the use of 4K resolution monitors. For us home users, the news is of little use right now, but it is suspected that in the future, in a few years, 4K displays will be in the news.
Currently, these displays are only used for work, in places where the quality of the image can even depend on lives. The test was also performed on a high-resolution EIZO FDH3601 used, for example, by air traffic controllers. The purpose of the test was to obtain a validated result that GIGABYTE's dual Thunderbolt series motherboards are capable of driving a display with a resolution of 4096 × 2034 pixels.
As you might guess, the test was successful. Thunerbolt ports can transfer up to 10 gigabits of data per second, and they also support the DisplayPort 1.1 standard, which means an image, or more precisely two DisplayPort adapters, can be used to display the image.
Configuration used for the 4K test:
- Motherboard: GIGABYTE GA-Z77MX-D3H TH is the latest official BIOS (F5 BIOS)
- Monitor: EIZO FDH3601
- CPU: Intel Core i7 3770K and HD4000
- Thunderbolt Mini DisplayPort connectors
- Operating system: Windows 8 (basic drivers)
- 2x Mini DisplayPort-DisplayPort adapter
