Will a 4k 27 inch monitor work with my early 2009 MacPro

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Will a 4k 27 inch monitor work with my early 2009 MacPro

I have a 24 inch Dell monitor which has worked well but I'd like to move up to a 27 inch monitor.

I haven't looked into buying a monitor for quite some time and I'm not up to speed on all of the new stuff that's out there.

I'm wondering if I would be able to run one of the 4k , 27inch monitors with my MacPro.

I am using a NVIDIA GeForce GTX 660 Ti 2048 MB graphics card.

I've noticed also that some of the newer monitors do not have a DVI display port only the newer Display Ports so I guess that eliminates those.

Any suggestions would be appreciated.

Thanks.

Mac Pro, OS X Yosemite (10.10.2)

Posted on Sep 5, 2015 8:27 AM

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lllaass

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Sep 5, 2015 8:36 AM in response to JmDo

This

http://www.geforce.com/hardware/desktop-gpus/geforce-gtx-660ti/specifications

says your monitor will drive

Display Support:

4 displaysMulti Monitor

4096x2160Maximum Digital Resolution3

2048x1536Maximum VGA Resolution

YesHDCP

YesHDMI4

One Dual Link DVI-I, One Dual Link DVI-D, One HDMI, One DisplayPortStandard Display Connectors

InternalAudio Input for HDMI

Note 3 says:

3 - 3840x2160 at 30Hz or 4096x2160 at 24Hz supported over HDMI. 4096x2160 (including 3840x2160) at 60Hz supported over Displayport. Support for 4k tiled MST displays requires 326.19 driver or later.

You need a displayport/mini displayport connection

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JmDo Author

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Sep 5, 2015 9:14 AM in response to lllaass

Thanks Illaass, for pointing that out to me I didn't realise that I also didn't know I had a Display Port available to me with that card, that definitely expands my buying horizons.

Cheers

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