GS60 4k - Dual 4k External

I'm looking to get a GS60 4k - 053 (6th gen) and was wondering if it would support dual external 4k monitors using the HDMI and mDP (since we don't have usb 3.1 yet). Does anyone have experience with this? I know my GS60-3k can support dual 3k external monitors. According to the specs found on Intel I believe it is possible. But I don't want to spend the extra money on 4k monitors if I can't push them using the 2 ports provided. I will probably turn the gs60 screen to 1080p (because 4k on 15" isn't fun) because I just want the extra storage and the 6GB vram (ark survival).

http://ark.intel.com/products/88967/Intel-Core-i7-6700HQ-Processor-6M-Cache-up-to-3_50-GHz
http://us.msi.com/product/nb/GS60-Ghost-Pro-4K-6th-Gen-GTX-970M.html#hero-specification

 

What will you be doing on the monitors?

The max resolution for HDMI 1.4 is 2560x1440 so it wouldn't be able to get up to 4k, you would need more mDP like the GS70 has for instance. Also pushing 4k with a 970m will likely be more frustrating than anything. If you are really wanting a dual/triple 4k monitor setup your best bet would be a desktop with a high end GPU. For laptops right now it is just really difficult to have something that will push them with anything over some basic spreadhseets/word processing.

 

I think I just found the answer to my question. So I can use 3 displays (HDMI - 3K display, mDP - 4K display, usbC(to mDP) - 4K Display). Please if someone from XoticPC or GenTechpc could answer this that would be AWESOME!

I just saw this on the non-4k page: http://www.msi.com/product/notebook/GS60-6QE-Ghost-Pro.html#hero-overview
*GS70 : 3 external displays through one HDMI 1.4 and two MINI DisplayPort 1.2

*GS60 / GS40 : 3 external displays through one HDMI 1.4, one MINI DisplayPort 1.2 and one Super Port (For Super Port, a Type-C to Mini Display Port cable is required).

 

I'm not looking to play games with those screens. Just looking to do work/development (web/text editors/email) on those screens.

 

ya you should be able to push it out the superport as well if you have the right cabling.

 

Well I was planning on using these cables for the setup:
1x HDMI
2x DisplayPort

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00HNF0KF0 ( X2 mDP to DP)
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0155BR8BM ( USB C to mDP) (combine both to make DP)

OR

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0155APCN4

 

That looks good to me

 

I'm looking to order this from Amazon and just wanted to what type of m.2 drive was in the 512GB variants (both 1TB HDD, & 500GB SSD). Is it the NVMe 2500MBs? 2200MBs? or lam sauce 600MBs?

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B015QHZL8M

http://www.xoticpc.com/msi-gs60-ghost-pro002-p-8587.html?wconfigure=yes
512GB Micron M600 Solid State Drive [M.2] SSD ( + 205 )
512GB Samsung SM951 PCIe Solid State Drive [M.2] (Read 2150MB/s - Write 1500MB/s 90K IOPS) ( + 329 )
512GB Samsung 950 Pro NVMe PCIe 3.0 x4 Solid State Drive [M.2] (Read 2500MB/s - Write 1500MB/s 110K IOPS) ( + 336 )

 

The default listing is lame sauce non PCIe, you can PM me or message me your configuration that you want and I can list it on there for you

 

Both HDMI and mdisplayport support 4K, but only mdisplayport will drive the monitors at 60hz without issues. HDMI 1.4 is bandwidth limited and will either run at 30hz stable or 60hz with chromasubsampling and possible artifacts/issues.

If you have support for multiple external monitors, use the minidisplayports.

 

You can do triple display with all of the external output (with internal screen disabled), or you can also do 1 internal screen plus 2 external screens.
If you have any questions, feel free to let us know.

 

At 6:23:



Yes you can use 3 external monitors via 1 HDMI, 1 mDP and 1 Superport.

 

What about connecting these dual 4k monitors via SuperPort (aka type-c)

http://www.msi.com/product/notebook/GS60-6QE-Ghost-Pro.html#section-8

states you can connect dual 4k via super port

maybe someone can share their experience?

 

Yes you can chain 2 but it won't impact the total number of displays you can have.

 

The bandwidth can handle dual 4K displays without any issues so no worries.

 

thanks you for your replies.
but how technically I can chain them?

Laptop > SuperPort > DisplayPort In > 4k display > DisplayPort out > DisplayPort In > 4k display ?

In other words I need 2 cables SuperPort>DisplayPort and DisplayPort>DisplayPor

 

1x DP port from the machine itself
1x Super Port via Multiport Adapter (see below)
http://www.apple.com/shop/product/MJ1K2AM/A/usb-c-digital-av-multiport-adapter

 

Thanks for reply.
Just connected both displays.
One via mini display port with 60Hz and one via HDMI with 30Hz.

My question, how can I make my 2nd screen 60Hz?
Your link states:

This adapter allows you to mirror your MacBook display to your HDMI-enabled TV or display in up to 1080p at 60Hz or UHD (3840x2160) at 30Hz.
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So I will have same 30Hz rate.

 

That's correct, you will get 30Hz out of HDMI.
That's a a hardware limitation.
The only product that can support dual 4K @ 60Hz is GT80S, nothing else.

 

So even with this cable: http://www.amazon.com/Monoprice-USB...9683900&sr=8-1&keywords=type+c+to+displayport
I will get 30Hz?

 

Probably yes because it says in the description it supports 10Gbps data rate, and 4K60hz requires I think 18Gbps.

 

Yes, that's correct.