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hdmi or dvi

Post by ahmedpc03 » 26 Jun 2018, 05:44

hi

i bought the philips 323E7QDAB to use it as a second monitor for single player games and ps4

my question is which port do i have to use with the pc, hdmi or dvi ?

is there a different in picture quality,text, colors, or input lag between them

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Re: hdmi or dvi

Post by RealNC » 26 Jun 2018, 05:48

I usually don't recommend HDMI on PC if you have an NVidia card. Very often, you get completely wrong colors that result in a washed-out image. The reason being that the NVidia driver will very often treat displays connected with HDMI as TVs and output a limited color range to it, even though the display expects full color range.

You can't go wrong with DVI. You're guaranteed proper colors.
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Re: hdmi or dvi

Post by ahmedpc03 » 26 Jun 2018, 05:52

alright
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Re: hdmi or dvi

Post by ahmedpc03 » 26 Jun 2018, 06:56

i found a display port to dvi cable in a local shop
do you think it well be a good performance?
or order a dvi to dvi better?
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Re: hdmi or dvi

Post by RealNC » 26 Jun 2018, 07:07

I'm not sure what you're trying to do here. Your graphics card has a DVI port, and so does your monitor, right? You only need a normal DVI-D or DVI-I cable. You don't need to convert anything.
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Re: hdmi or dvi

Post by ahmedpc03 » 26 Jun 2018, 07:16

RealNC wrote:I'm not sure what you're trying to do here. Your graphics card has a DVI port, and so does your monitor, right? You only need a normal DVI-D or DVI-I cable. You don't need to convert anything.
cant find a dvi to dvi cable in a local shop

so i have to order it and it well take about 4 days for delivery
i found a display port to dvi cable in a local shop
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Re: hdmi or dvi

Post by RealNC » 26 Jun 2018, 07:35

Well, I can't guarantee that there won't be any issues with a needless conversion from DP to DVI. I recommend just ordering a normal, bog-standard DVI-D cable, or asking the local shop to get one for you.
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Re: hdmi or dvi

Post by ahmedpc03 » 26 Jun 2018, 07:38

in my city computer shops are very bad

and most of the things i order it online

we have a good big electronics shop its called jarir and they offering a good quality product like this cable
http://www.jarir.com/sa-en/non-branded- ... 40443.html

other than that maybe i can find a dvi to dvi cable in some computer shop but it well be unbranded Chinese cables with bad quality
or order the cable online


any way thanks for your help and sorry for the long story :D
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