Acer nitro 5 an56 with rtx350 card

Mrgreenlight
Mrgreenlight Member Posts: 8 New User
My laptop finally arrived. Set up all good. Even hooked it up to my 4ktv via hdmi out with connects straight to my rtx 350 card. However I have a gaming monitor LG which I want to use while gaming. But my monitor has a USB c connection only. I do have a USB c on nitro 5 and managed to connect up monitor and works fine however this only uses the Intel HD graphics card integrated which is useless on games. Have read through many forums and there now way my graphics card will connect via this connection. So I looked into getting a USB c to hdmi wire but some say this won't work I need and adaptor. I would like advice what connection I should use. As some say I will loose performance from graphics card connecting and should buy a hdmi monitor haha

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  • JackE
    JackE ACE Posts: 44,865 Trailblazer
    What LG monitor do you have? If it uses an alternate mode USBC port that supports native DisplayPort video signal output, then it would likely have a DisplayPort or miniDisplayPort signal input socket not a USBC input socket. Perhaps if you could post a phone photo of the UBC-2-LG cable and end connectors, it would help.

    If you have the AN515-56 model, your USB ports are likely data only that don't natively support video signal output. However, you can use a USB-2-video DisplayPort signal converter to make it work but won't be good for gaming since refresh rates are low. 30Hz or less. Some extra cost optional versions of this laptop apparently had a ThunderBolt port and an HDMI port that also supported DisplayPort signal outputs. In either of these situations a simple passive port adapter would work. But you likely would've known that these extra cost optional features would've been well advertised in your purchase.

    Jack E/NJ

  • Mrgreenlight
    Mrgreenlight Member Posts: 8 New User
    Yes an56 has USB c  thunderbolt port. I have connected it already via a USB type c connection and works fine but the port is only connected to the Intel uhd dedicated card. The hdmi out is for the rtx 350 which I connected to my TV and shows on my nvidea setting display connected 350. However when connecting via the USB c thunderbolt to LG is indicates Intel uhd. So I was thinking that a hdmi to USB c wire so I can put hdmi out of laptop to usb c to monitor 

  • Mrgreenlight
    Mrgreenlight Member Posts: 8 New User
    this is my LG monitor which is normally hooked up to my mac book. I have connected the cable to port on nitro 5 but again this will only play of the dedicated card. Hdmi is rtx out only so was hoping I simple hdmi to USB c wire would work 
  • JackE
    JackE ACE Posts: 44,865 Trailblazer
    Shut the machine off. Then turn it on and immediately tap F2 to enter the BIOS menu. Go to the ADVANCED tab. Try enabling and saving TBT thunderbolt detection setting. It might then detect and use the discrete GPU.

    Jack E/NJ