Trouble trying to connect laptop to 144hz monitor with hdmi to displayport converter adapter.

[Dog cat]

Hi, I am having a problem trying to connect my laptop to a 144hz monitor. The laptop I am trying to use is the dell 7577 and the monitor im using is the Dell Gaming S2716DGR 27.0" Screen LED-Lit Monitor with G-SYNC. As you can see my laptop doesn’t have a mini display port entrance and neither a dp entrance, so i bought a gofanco 4k x 2k hdmi to displayport converter adapter with usb. I connected it to my monitor and it does display the image of my laptop on the monitor, but in the nvidia control panel it doesn’t detect 2 different monitors and I can’t go over 60hz.

[Peabrain]

Does the lead support that resolution above 60hz? Different hdmi versions only support high refresh at certain resolutions.

Can the laptops hdmi port output more than 60hz?

[_I_]

use dp or dvi
no hdmi adapters

[Sapph]

You need either DisplayPort or DVI to get 144hz. HDMI can't output 144hz.
So if your laptop doesn't have DisplayPort...you can't use 144hz monitor.

[Omega]

HDMI 2.0 and up can do 144hz at 1440p just fine.

Cheap display adapters will often bottleneck, so that could be an issue. Also make sure that everything (cable, HDMI port etc..) are capable of HDMI 2.0 speeds.

[Dog cat]

Even if it is an converter adapter from hdmi to DisplayPort? Because I am not using a single hdmi cable. You can look the name of the cable that I said on amazon.

[Omega]

Read the specs on the Amazon page:

"HIGH QUALITY VIDEO & AUDIO - Supports resolutions of UHD 4K (3840x2160) @ 30Hz, 1080p (1920x1080) @ 120 Hz,"

It can do 120Hz at 1080p and 30hz at 4K .. So yeah, it's the adapter which is the issue.

[Dog cat]

Also, the laptop is hdmi 2.0 capable and it tried using the cable on another monitors ( that are not 144hz) and it worked fine, it even gave me 75hz on one monitor.

[_I_]

Originally posted by Omega:

HDMI 2.0 and up can do 144hz at 1440p just fine.

Cheap display adapters will often bottleneck, so that could be an issue. Also make sure that everything (cable, HDMI port etc..) are capable of HDMI 2.0 speeds.

but the notebook needs a gpu with hdmi 2.0 port

[andreasaspenberg575]

you need a hdmi 2.0 cable and a monitor that supports 144 through hdmi. some monitors can not handle that and requires dvi or displayport for that. in nvidia control panel you can test what frequencies your monitor supports, if you have access to that function that is(i do not on my laptop).