My monitor is going on me so as a work around until I can afford a new one I was going to connect it to my TV for the time being but the only dongle I could find in the price range I was willing to pay it this. http://www.ncix.com/products/?sku=56138&vpn=GHDMIMDVIF&manufacture=IOGEAR Now I have no idea if my card/cable is dual link or not I wanted to know if anybody had any idea if it would matter if it ended up being only single link. :drool: btw trying to do it to vga is stupid as hell. And really expensive ...... :tear:
yeah do dvi to the hdmi cable ... if you do it vga your converting a analog signal to a digital which is not good you will not get sound from the adapter FYI !!!
single link is good up to 1920 x 1080 @ 60hz, so it works fine for 1080p, just no 3D, no "higher 1080p" (1920 x 1200). Your card should be dual link compatible, and that adapter says dual link, so you should be good to go. Graphics cards have had dual link outputs for a LONG time now. Peronsally, I ahve never used an adapter link that, I normally go the oposite way. Where I plug in and screw the adapater to the back of my graphics card (male DVI) and it has a female HDMI that I just use a normal HDMI cable to connect the adapter to the HDTV with. Or I use a regular DVI to HDMI cable (no adapter). DVI and HDMI are pin to pin compatible and no adapter is required, the adapters like that basically just change from one physical connection style to the other. It is important to note that you will probably not have audio over HDMI with that adapter. Both AMD and Nvidia offer audio over DVI output on graphics cards when using a DVI to HDMI adapter like that, but you have to use AMD's official adapter for it on AMD/ATI cards. And I dont know anything specific you have to do to get audio on an Nvidia card. It might have changed since I last looked, but Nvidia required a cable inside the tower connecting your sound card to the graphics card, but it is possible that changed to being done in the driver since I last looked.
Not worried about sound. And my comp is pretty old running a x1950 pro agp just looking for a stop gap until I can afford a new comp/screen so I want to do it as cheap as I can get away with. Which means not buying cables I don't need. That's why I want to know if I get this dongle if it will work even if I don't have dual link which I don't know if it is or not. Hell if the PS3 web browser didn't suck so much I wouldn't even bother with it.
Yes it will work, but the cable is cheaper than that: http://www.monoprice.com/products/p...=10231&cs_id=1023104&p_id=2404&seq=1&format=2 Or the adapters (single link) from a cheaper source: http://www.monoprice.com/products/p...=10419&cs_id=1041902&p_id=2080&seq=1&format=2 http://www.monoprice.com/products/p...=10419&cs_id=1041902&p_id=2029&seq=1&format=2 Either will work the same, and you may have to tweak a thing or two in your graphics card config to get the image the right size on your display. Many graphics cards, especially older ones, have issues with scaling when connecting to an HDTV via HDMI. Not a big deal though. or a "premium" cable version for just a bit more: http://www.monoprice.com/products/p...=10231&cs_id=1023102&p_id=2218&seq=1&format=2 better gauge wire is not needed at all and will do nothing, but I like the net wrap over the cable. If all your other cables have a net type warp on them then you may want to get it to match.
I'm confused did you say your trying to do vga via an adapter to hdmi or dvi to hdmi as those are cheap as hell.
Nice prices shipping + import would kill me though and make it cost more then the dongle from that Canadian store that I used.
Whats so hard about this? If you have your HDMI cable, just buy a DVI to HDMI (female) 10 bucks from Nvidia. Your TV isnt gonna display colors as your monitor would [unless you have a Samsung (like me )] so just buy that. Simple... http://store.nvidia.com/store/nvidi...=TYPNkAoBAlgAAAeLLIQAAAAu&rests=1300483472587
Honestly, gaming mode is more important than anything else. If your refresh rate is low on your screen you will see a bit of input delay which can and will cause latency issues.
I have my 240hz 46" LED TV hooked up to my computer using a mini hdmi to hdmi cable (it came with my GTX 470) from the video card to my Denon AV receiver and a Digital Coaxial cable for audio from my motherboard to the Denon AV Receiver. Before that when I still had a GTX 260 (that didnt have a built in mini hdmi port) I had an Amazonbasics DVI to HDMI cable for video and the same digital coaxial cable for audio. The audio cable can do 5.1 audio just fine, most motherboards also have a digital toslink port if you prefer to use one of those for audio. I dont think that tv's can do dual link dvi however, most can only go up to 60hz for pc gaming.
I don't have any issues with connecting my PC to my TV. I do use an DVI converter plugged into the back of my GPU and then use the HDMI cord to plug into the TV. It looks fine to me.
It works only problem is I can't seem to find out how to make it fill the screen and the thing is too big so I can't have my PS3 hooked up at the same time.
Open Catalyst Control Center, I think under Monitor Properties there is the options for GPU scaling. Play with that and see if you can get it to fill right Nvidia's scaling options work much better IMO
Keep in mind I don't have the best of HDTVs and compared to monitors the pixel density is far lower on TVs. It works. Some stuff is a little blurry (upping the multisampling seems to fix that for the most part if you have that option) and I had to set it to 1280x720 because shit was too small to read comfortably at the higher resolutions with out my face right in the screen like it was sitting at my desk on my monitor. I got one of those 7 day comeback trials for WOW and played that for a couple hours it ran a lot better because this old comp wasn't trying to fill in the high pixel density my monitor had but that's about all the gaming I have done on my PC since the monitor busted.