Monitor cable help

Discussion in 'Hardware' started by Gopher04, Feb 2, 2017.

  1. Gopher04

    Gopher04 Well-Known Member

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    Going to pick a 1070 soon, but a bit confused about which way to go with the cable connections, I use 2 monitors my main, and a extended monitor, now on the 1070 you have dvi/dpi and hdmi connections, on the monitors I have dvi on the extended one, and on the main screen I have dvi/hdmi, one of these can be connected using the dvi cable still, one has to have a hdmi to dvi cable, or dpi to dvi cable, or I could use hdmi to hdmi on the main screen only.
    I was thinking of staying with dvi to dvi on the extended monitor and dpi to dvi on the main monitor, any opinions would be helpful.
     
  2. Karting06

    Karting06 Well-Known Member Beta tester

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    Why not simply using HDMI to HDMI on that monitor?
     
  3. Gopher04

    Gopher04 Well-Known Member

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    Never had a need before, I don't use monitor speakers, and still don't, plus I'm still picking up around the net that hdmi to hdmi is still not the best way to go on a pc, I don't know that's why I'm asking.
     
  4. CheerfullyInsane

    CheerfullyInsane Well-Known Member

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    I honestly don't think it matters all that much.
    I've got a 970 with dpi/dvi to my 'main' screen, and hdmi/hdmi to my racing-rig.
    No real reason, it just happened to be the cables I had lying around. Seems to work fine, far as I can tell.
     
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