How to connect external monitor with displayport to HP Pavilion Gaming 15 laptop

[SEA5]

Hi,

Just bought this new laptop - this is the new model with Ryzen 5600H - and realized that it does not have a displayport connector, only HDMI. I want to connect it to my 4K monitor's displayport - is that possible? Does this laptop support video via USB C port? If yes what cable/adapter do I need?

Thanks a lot,

Sea5

[banhien]

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@SEA5 wrote:

.... Does this laptop support video via USB C port? If yes what cable/adapter do I need?

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@SEA5 

You can use a HDMI to DP cable to connect.  Cable should be similar to the following cable. Its HDMI port may not support 4K monitor

          https://www.officeworks.com.au/shop/officeworks/p/comsol-displayport-male-to-hdmi-male-4k-cable-2m-c...

I can't say more because I do not know the model/product of your machine.

Regards.

[SEA5]

Thank you for your reply. Sorry for not including the exact model id of the laptop. 

This is the exact model I got:

HP Pavilion Gaming 15-ec2021nr 15.6" Platinum Collection Laptop Computer - Black
AMD Ryzen 5 5600H 3.3GHz Processor; NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1650 4GB GDDR6; 8GB DDR4-3200 RAM; 512GB Solid State Drive

[banhien]

@SEA5 

Its specs

     https://support.hp.com/au-en/document/c07060711

It has1 SuperSpeed USB Type-C® 5Gbps signaling rate port which does NOT support Power Delivery not Alt mode therefore you can NOT use it to

• charge your machine using USB-C charger
• connect it to an external monitor with/without hub/adapter/dock

It has 1 HDMI 2.0 port. You can connect to a 4K monitor @60Hz.

Regards,

[SEA5]

Thank you, this is very helpful.

So my issue is that my 4K monitor has an older 1.4 HDMI input that supports 4K@30Hz only. To get  4K@60Hz it needs to be connected via displayport. This laptop does have HDMI 2.0 that can do 4K@60 Hz but apparently a it's not so simple to get HDMI 2.0 converted to displayport. DP/HDMP cables are one directional, the can only connect DP output to HDMI input but not the reverse. Looks like 4K@30 Hz is the best I can get out of this setup.