Anyone Have Experience with Displayport to HDMI Cables?

09 Apr 2014 21:16 #1 by otisptoadwater
I bought a new monitor recently and it has inputs for VGA, DVI, and HDMI. My video card has VGA, DVI, and Displayport outputs. I'm running the monitor at 1920 X 1080 resolution and the VGA signal is ok but not as sharp as I would like, the DVI is better but I'm wondering if the quality would be even better with a Displayport to HDMI cable. I've done a quick look around the tubes of the interwebs and found that Displayport to HDMI cables run around $50.00. I'd like to know if anyone else has run this type of connection before I fork over half a Benjamin only to discover it wasn't worth the cash. Thanks in advance for all replies!

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10 Apr 2014 07:37 #2 by RenegadeCJ
Is displayport on a mac? I might have a cable you could try to see if it works. I'll check and let you know.

Too bad future generations aren't here to see all the great things we are spending their $$ on!!

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10 Apr 2014 08:33 #3 by archer
Amazon has displayport to Hdmi cables for $13. I buy all my cables from them, and they have been excellent, I use the mini Hdmi to HDMI for streaming movies and Dish network from my phone and tablet.

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10 Apr 2014 18:23 #4 by otisptoadwater
Renegade CJ, thanks for the sentiment but I'm driving a Dell XPS 630 with a Nvidia GeForce GT 640 video card.

archer, I did a search last night on Amazon and found 800-ish cables but only a couple that were Displayport to HDMI and they wanted $50-ish for all of them. Clearly I'm doing it wrong! I'll go do some more searching and maybe I can find a good cable at a price that won't bother me as much if the video quality isn't any better than the DVI cable.

Either way I'll post the results of the experiment, maybe I can save someone else from the same predicament or sing the praises of the Displayport to HDMI cable.

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11 Apr 2014 01:24 #5 by archer
I searched for displayport to HDMI cables, they have them starting at about $6 for a short one, the $13 was for 10'

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