So my adaptor arrived today. Tried testing it out, but here's the rub. My laptop has onboard Intel HD 630, and an Nvidia GTX 1050 Ti, but apparently it's impossible to get the Nvidia GPU as the primary GPU to control the display.
So I was limited to using intel's custom resolution stuff, which doesn't work properly at all (for one thing, the vertical front porch, vertical back porch, and vertical sync width don't add up to the total vertical pixels). And it wouldn't reliably make the CRT click when i tried hitting apply.
However, I was able to get the default resolution of my laptop to show on the CRT (1920x1080 and at 85 hz). When I hit the OSD button on the CRT, it said 85 hz and a horizontal frequency of 96.4 KHz, which if I'm not mistaken corresponds to a pixel clock of 252.9 MHz. The image looked stable and fine.
So my guess is that this adaptor might actually work. The issue is getting it connected to a thunderbolt / USB-C port through a decent GPU (i.e. not Intel).
Did CRU work with your laptop?
just looked into that. This one does.
But I don't think you need a GPU with USB-C or Thunderbolt 3, just a motherboard that has the port. And you can get add on USB-C cards for regular motherboards, I believe. So it may easier than expected
Did you see my reply on previous page about USB-C adapters?
With the Sunix card you can connect that adapter wherever you want.
Motherboards with USB-C in most cases works only in USB mode,sometimes the chip is connected with the Displayport lanes of the integrated GPU,but it will never work for output from your dedicated video card.
Displayport alternate mode from USB-C works only if the USB chip can access the displayport lanes of your video card,and it is what Sunix and Delock cards do.
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