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f14tomcat said:

Speaking of cables.....

HDMI vs DP? Any thoughts?

HDMI 1.4 or later?

AndreTen said:

HDMI 1.4 or later?

Where do I find that? I have my Samsung 27" on HDMI now, on the 1080Ti, and was curious if DP was better.

Caledon Ken said:

Nice.

Amazing how inexpensive cables are when you get away from the physical stores.

Ohhhhhhhhhh, yeah! After I bought my monitor yesterday, I have a need for HDMI to DVI for one of my monitors. I could get a 6 ft cable from Amazon with gold connectors for $6.99. Since I was already going to Walmart for laundry stuff, I decided to look at Wally World and Office Depot for the cable before ordering from Amazon.

Neither store had the actual cable; they only had the "pigtail" adapters and those were $16.99! At both stores! More than double the price of the more convenient cable! Sheesh!

No wonder they're closing the brick and mortar stores right and left!

I don't do anything that I would see difference in HDMI / DisplayPort.

On this machine I use one of each.

f14tomcat said:

Speaking of cables.....

HDMI vs DP? Any thoughts?

I think HDMI is newer than DVI, but I'm not 100% sure. My 1050 ti video card has one HDMI and one DVI, so I'm limited to one monitor of each. Which is why I had to get the HDMI to DVI cable so I can use my Samsung 24" as a second monitor. Both monitors have only VGA and HDMI; I forgot to check when I bought the Acer 27" yesterday, but it's easily fixed.

f14tomcat said:

Where do I find that? I have my Samsung 27" on HDMI now, on the 1080Ti, and was curious if DP was better.

Does monitor support 4k at high refresh rates?

a quick read

https://www.pcmag.com/article/363903...-my-pc-monitor

Caledon Ken said:

Does monitor support 4k at high refresh rates?

a quick read

https://www.pcmag.com/article/363903...-my-pc-monitor

be back shortly....................

I looked up DVI vs HDMI and here's a pretty good explanation of both and maybe some more too:

Whats the Difference Between HDMI and DVI? Which is Better?

f14tomcat said:

Where do I find that? I have my Samsung 27" on HDMI now, on the 1080Ti, and was curious if DP was better.

Could have higher bandwidth 20 vs 10 Gbit/s (max only)

You can't go wrong with HDMI gold-plated connectors

I use HDMI on the main monitor and DVI on the other two. My card only has two DVI ports along with 2 HDMI, but I prefer HDMI any way.