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fiber optic DP cables are maybe $70 or $80 and work pretty well in my experience. on the pricier side if you have something with TB support, you can do display

by vluft 4y ago

fiber optic DP cables are maybe $70 or $80 and work pretty well in my experience. on the pricier side if you have something with TB support, you can do display and USB over that to a fiber optic TB cable (about $400); this is my current setup for my racked PC in another room to my office, with a TB hub (caldigit TS4) that splits out display and USB.

LeSaucy 4y ago
Any idea if those are thunderbolt 4? Its hard to find any vendor that will state support for 4K144hz through a dock over any sort of extension, right now I am limited to "only" 4K60.
- shmoogy 4y ago
  I run a fiber optic display port and can do 4K 120 from 50 feet away. Thunderbolt cables are incredibly expensive I just ran the DisplayPort, an Ethernet, and usb cable - not sure I've seen any TB4 optical cables that are long lengths yet, just the Apple one that's like 6 feet for $200. You can buy Tb3 ones for 400 or so.
- kentonv 4y ago
  I have a 50ft Monoprice SlimRun DisplayPort cable on my 4k 144hz gaming monitor and it works great. However, it's just a DisplayPort cable, not thunderbolt, direct from PC to monitor, no dock. And it cost $170. :/
- vluft 4y ago
  the only available fiber optic thunderbolt cables I'm aware of right now are from corning, and they are thunderbolt 3. I'm running 5120x1440@120hz through it (and a variety of USB); 4k144hz would be about 35% more bandwidth. Corning lists the cable as supporting 2x4k or 1x5k (presumably both at 60hz); 5k is the same bandwidth as mine, and 2x4k is some what more but less than 4k144hz. Total bandwidth on the cable is 40g and bandwidth needed for 4k144hz is about 32g I believe. can't guarantee it'd work, but 4k120hz probably does?
geerlingguy 4y ago
That sounds similar to the setup Linus (from LTT) is using at his house: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dy312cUHumk https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dy312cUHumk
KaiserPro 4y ago
I should have looked again before I posted that last part. when I last did this it was for a VFX house. They used a fibre "sender" and for really long distance they used a teradici system.

by vluft 4y ago

LeSaucy 4y ago

Any idea if those are thunderbolt 4? Its hard to find any vendor that will state support for 4K144hz through a dock over any sort of extension, right now I am limited to "only" 4K60.

shmoogy 4y ago
I run a fiber optic display port and can do 4K 120 from 50 feet away. Thunderbolt cables are incredibly expensive I just ran the DisplayPort, an Ethernet, and usb cable - not sure I've seen any TB4 optical cables that are long lengths yet, just the Apple one that's like 6 feet for $200. You can buy Tb3 ones for 400 or so.
kentonv 4y ago
I have a 50ft Monoprice SlimRun DisplayPort cable on my 4k 144hz gaming monitor and it works great. However, it's just a DisplayPort cable, not thunderbolt, direct from PC to monitor, no dock. And it cost $170. :/
vluft 4y ago
the only available fiber optic thunderbolt cables I'm aware of right now are from corning, and they are thunderbolt 3. I'm running 5120x1440@120hz through it (and a variety of USB); 4k144hz would be about 35% more bandwidth. Corning lists the cable as supporting 2x4k or 1x5k (presumably both at 60hz); 5k is the same bandwidth as mine, and 2x4k is some what more but less than 4k144hz. Total bandwidth on the cable is 40g and bandwidth needed for 4k144hz is about 32g I believe. can't guarantee it'd work, but 4k120hz probably does?

geerlingguy 4y ago

That sounds similar to the setup Linus (from LTT) is using at his house: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dy312cUHumk https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dy312cUHumk

KaiserPro 4y ago

I should have looked again before I posted that last part. when I last did this it was for a VFX house. They used a fibre "sender" and for really long distance they used a teradici system.