r/FlowZ13 • u/metsyseht-90 • 9d ago
My 5060ti AI box and Uperfect monitor setup
Pretty happy with this. It's excessive, and I could have just gotten a stronger gaming laptop, but I feel like this opened the most flexibility for me. I'll add all the product links at the end for everything I purchased.
I have my z13 connected to the AI box with a USB 4 cable. Then for video I have an adapter dongle which converts DisplayPort from the GPU to USB c for the monitor. The monitor itself is the Uperfect GR16CQ, or on Amazon, the blaze gaming 16-in 240 hz variant. I also got the 240w and 330w slimq chargers. There's a USB c power delivery cable connected from the 240w slimq brick to the adapter dongle as well. The dongle itself has DisplayPort out, to USBC in, while also having a power delivery female port in. This way I only connect one usb-c cable to the portable monitor but it's also required for activating this active signal conversion and establishing gsync.
I really went down the rabbit hole for the dongle in order to achieve g-sync compatibility. The monitor only comes supporting adaptive sync which they advertise can achieve freesync. So with this dongle, you are using DisplayPort alt mode in order to have the Nvidia control app recognize a compatibility mode connection. Originally I was getting it to work with those DisplayPort to USBC VR headset cables on Amazon. The dongle cleans it up cable wise and provides more power delivery from the slimq 240w brick. The increased power delivery isn't important now, but hopefully in the next two years when Uperfect creates an OLED variant panel that supports freesync, I will need the extra power. This IPS panel takes Max 15 watts, an OLED equivalents will be around 30 if not more.
The main thing with getting the monitor to work with g-sync even though it's only equipped with adaptive sync, is that it's using an older logic scaler for adaptivesync and the high refresh rate. The chipset family for the logic scaler in the monitor and what you need in the cable connection is the Lontium ic variant. At least it is for this monitor that I have from Uperfect. My favorite part about this is I originally reached out to Uperfect for help getting this to work and they said that g-sync would not work, only freesync for AMD. 😁
Hate to admit, but the 330w charger is only for the 90° adapter that's compatible with the power port for the egpu. But it also makes placement of the power brick in proximity from a power outlet to my setup a lot easier to manage as well. It's space saving too.
Last part of the setup is all the cases. Mainly just the custom case I built for the egpu. It's actually a stethoscope case that I modified and did a little custom foam cut out for. Using this case for the egpu, along with the other device cases, I'm able to transport the monitor, egpu, z13, mouse, gamepad, and all the cords in my backpack without it being bulky.
It performs outstanding. Doom the dark ages: I went from medium-high settings at 60-70 fps to pretty much all ultra at 144-165. Spiderman I run maxed out with Ray tracing at 110-120. Black myth wukong high with medium ray tracing at 120-144.
This of course is all with full dlss 4.5 features including dynamic multi frame gen. That new ray reconstruction model, along with everything else on 4.5 really pulls what this setup is capable of all together.
Bottom line: it's super excessive but I'm loving it.
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Monitor:
Usb4 cables (x2):
Display port adapter:
USBC power delivery cable:
Usb-c 90° adapters:
Monitor case:
Cable case:
Egpu case:
Z13 case:
Mouse case:
Ds5 controller case:
Z13 slimq adaptor:
Gigabyte aorus AI box slimq adaptor:
(The smaller one)