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Hi,
I already have one of my monitors hooked up via a DVI connection to the back of my Mac Pro. There is also another input next to the DVI input on the back of the Mac. Please see pic. Is this for hooking up a second monitor? If so, how do I do it? The input is rather small and must need some type of adapter?
Thanks.
Mac Pro, OS X Mavericks (10.9.4)
That connector is the same one used for ThunderBolt. But it is a subset of the full thunderBolt signals known as Mini DisplayPort. It can be adapted directly to a full sized DisplayPort with a "just wires" cable or adapter. It is considered "state of the art". There are many different adapters available, to other connection methods now referred to as "legacy" connections.
That connector is the same one used for ThunderBolt. But it is a subset of the full thunderBolt signals known as Mini DisplayPort. It can be adapted directly to a full sized DisplayPort with a "just wires" cable or adapter. It is considered "state of the art". There are many different adapters available, to other connection methods now referred to as "legacy" connections.
That is for an HDMI cable and can be used to connect another monitor that supports HDMI.
Grant may well be right, that it is for a mini-DisplayPort meaning the monitor would need to support mini-DisplayPort.
Looks like HDMI to me. Sure it's a mini-DisplayPort? I have no sense of dimension in that image.
These are all to the same scale except the DVI, which should be at least twice as wide as the others if all were to scale.
from this helper web-app on apple's site:
http://store.apple.com/us/mac/mac-accessories/cables/cable-chooser#!
Apple does not offer Mini DisplayPort to DisplayPort cables in their store, but they are cheap and readily available elsewhere.
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Many thanks! Is this what I want? My second monitor just has a VGA conneciton...no DVI.
Thanks.
It's the second image from the left...mini display port.
Since Kappy suggested a different port, it would be prudent to confirm:
What graphics card are you using?
(then its connectors can be verified from online specs).
Here are the specs for the graphics card on my Mac Pro:
Graphics and displays
- Double-wide, 16-lane PCI Express 2.0 graphics slot with one of the following graphics cards installed:
NVIDIA GeForce GT 120 with 512MB of GDDR3 memory, PCI Express 2.0, one Mini DisplayPort, and one dual-link DVI port
Thanks for everyones help! 🙂
Just verified that it was in fact a Mini DisplayPort because I was able to hook the second monitor up with success. However, the picture on the second monitor is not very good. Here are the specs for the second monitor.
Display quality has grown by leaps and bounds in the last few years. Anything that only hooks up with Analog VGA is not likely to be state of the art.
Maybe you can put some controls or palettes on that VGA display and free your main display for a big picture.
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