5k imac with two 4k displays?

Can anyone confirm that you can use two 4k monitors with a 5k imac? I know it has two thunderbolt monitors but people have told me it can only support one 4k monitor due to the processing power of the CPU and Graphics Card. Essentially im trying to have a mac with 3 high resolution displays. I dont know if its possible yet because of hardware limitations. I was thinking about doing a 5k imac with two 4k displays or a mac pro with three 4k displays Or if neither are possible, I'd just go with a 5k imac and the 5k dell monitor if the iMac could only support one monitor. Thank you if anyone can answer this because I know its a niche question thats not really speci

I have this exact same question.
Just a side note: I own a 5k iMac with a 4k display connected and when I try to add my 4k tv it will not work as a third screen. Bear in mind that is via an hdmi-mdp and I have not tried connecting another monitor via dp.

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I had the same problem, and decided to look into it last night.
First of all, the solution I would like to have is for Apple to allow for selection of iCloud accounts per application, i.e. Contacts to one, Photo Stream to another. I believe this would be the most straight forward solution for the problem we are facing.
Since this is not an option I came up with a workaround. I was most interested in solving this for Contacts, so this is what I tested for. Now I have all 3 devices with the same contacts.
1) Turn off iCloud for Contacts on all devices. On the device that has the Contacts list that you would like to propagate to all others select to keep the contacts, and on the others select not to keep them.
Note that the current backups still exist on iCloud, so in case something goes wrong you can still turn the iCloud for Contacts back on to get your current Contacts back.
2) In iTunes, sync All Contacts with the phones, starting with the one with the Contacts content you chose to keep.
From this point on, the 3 devices should sync contacts with each other.
This, of course, will stop your iCloud backups of Contacts, but I don't think this is really needed. You are already storing copies of your Conacts on 3 devices, which for good parts of the day are likely not all co-located. You also potentially have Time Machine backups turned on, which would mean there is a 4th copy there as well. For the case of Contacts iCloud only complicates matter ... that is until Apple implements the solution I first wrote about.

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Is it possible to input itunes into DVI/HDCP input from imac with Apple mini display port? Or is there another way?

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