I bought one a year ago but unfortunately it doesn't work. The signal is extremely garbled. It's cheaper and more reliable to get the two separately.
I've never had problems, and it worked out cheaper for me. If it turns out cheaper for you, then that's fine. However, there is always the risk that as you have two separate things, there are two things which could go wrong.
Quote:However, there is always the risk that as you have two separate things, there are two things which could go wrong.
How I look at it: If I do it your way and the cable is broken I have nothing. If I do it my way and the cable is broken I at least have a working adapter to use with another cable.
I just checked neweggs prices. $9 for a 6 ft. DVI <-> HDMI cable or $5 for a HDMI/DVI adapter + $3 for a 6 ft. HDMI cable. It's $1 cheaper and more reliable if you look at the user reviews.
I generally prefer having lots of standard cables and adapters in my collection instead of a variety of uncommon cables with different connectors on each end. Plus in my experience adapter cables are generally less reliable than standalone adapters + cables.
As I've said, we've had different experiences price wise and reliability wise.
Also, how do you go about having a garbled signal through an electrically passive cable? I think you got one damaged during manufacture rather than a representation of what those cables are like.
Quote:Also, how do you go about having a garbled signal through an electrically passive cable?
Crappy wires, crappy connectors, loose wire, broken wire, etc. It could be any number of things but clearly something is very wrong because it looks completely fucked up.
Quote:I think you got one damaged during manufacture rather than a representation of what those cables are like.
Well obviously. Either that or during shipping.
My ability to play is very low because steam is always crashing >.>
The HD 4000 handles TF2 like a champ. 60-100 fps depending on the map at 1920 x 1200 with geometry and texture quality maxed out, 4x AF, no AA, no bloom, no HDR, no color correction, no motion blur, vsync off, water reflections simple, shaders low, shadows medium, and 90 degree FOV. This is with DDR3 1333MHz ram which is bottlenecking the IGP according to benchmarks. Overclocking the memory to 1600 MHz should add another 20%. This is really shitty ram so I doubt that I could OC it to 1866MHz and have it remain stable but if I could I could OC the IGP 15% and get another 15% boost on top of that.
I don't use motion blur or color correction normally anyways since I don't like the look of it. And I don't use vsync normally either since it makes aiming feel really unsmooth. So that leaves bloom, HDR, water reflections (which doesn't matter because water in TF2 is as rare as enriched uranium is in real life), AA, shaders, and shadows. I'm going to use FXAA instead of MSAA since it has almost no performance hit. With the 38% performance boost (memory + IGP overclock, 20% + another 15%) I should be able to kick shaders up to high or shadows up to high or possibly both if I'm lucky and still maintain the 60-100 fps that I'm used to. I will have to leave HDR and bloom off though since I would prefer to stay in the 60-100 fps range. Anything below 60 fps doesn't feel smooth enough for me.
I also need to defrag my HDD, it's taking way too long to load maps.
Oh and the HUD. Any recommendations for custom HUDs?
I may be without power if this storm ends up as bad as everyone is saying. Power is flickering atm here so if you don't see or hear from me that is why.
Should we do another tour of duty now that I'm back?