HDMI do I need it?

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Rene Lamontagne

I have just purchased a new LG IPS236V 23" monitor a few days ago, I have it
hooked up to an Asus Sabertooh X58 I7 950 CPU and with an Asus 5850
Videocard.
It is a really good fast setup and I am more than thrilled with the monitor,
Both the Videocard and monitor have HDMI connectors, My question is Is it
of any advantage to by a HDMi cable and hook it up that way?
I do not watch movies on the system but play mostly Half-Life games and
mods, also the monitor doesn’t have speakers.
Your thoughts would be appreciated

Regards, Rene
 
Rene said:
I have just purchased a new LG IPS236V 23" monitor a few days ago, I have it
hooked up to an Asus Sabertooh X58 I7 950 CPU and with an Asus 5850
Videocard.
It is a really good fast setup and I am more than thrilled with the monitor,
Both the Videocard and monitor have HDMI connectors, My question is Is it
of any advantage to by a HDMi cable and hook it up that way?
I do not watch movies on the system but play mostly Half-Life games and
mods, also the monitor doesn¢t have speakers.
Your thoughts would be appreciated

Regards, Rene
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HDMI vs. DVI

Nothing is different other than the pinout and that HDMI also carries an
audio signal (if, for example, you have speakers in your monitor but
I've yet to see any monitor with a decent set of speakers).

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hdmi#Compatibility_with_DVI

Does your video card actually support full HDMI where audio is included
its HDMI connector? Where's the audio connection to the video card?

http://www.abccables.com/info-dvi-hdmi.html
"DVI can only support digital video, and HDMI can support audio and
video on the same cable"

So whether you're missing something when using DVI versus HDMI depends
on what your video card supports and just what you're going to use the
audio on the other end of the HDMI cable.
 
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Rene said:
I have just purchased a new LG IPS236V 23" monitor a few days ago, I have
it
hooked up to an Asus Sabertooh X58 I7 950 CPU and with an Asus 5850
Videocard.
It is a really good fast setup and I am more than thrilled with the
monitor,
Both the Videocard and monitor have HDMI connectors, My question is Is it
of any advantage to by a HDMi cable and hook it up that way?
I do not watch movies on the system but play mostly Half-Life games and
mods, also the monitor doesn¢t have speakers.
Your thoughts would be appreciated

Regards, Rene
Click to expand...

HDMI vs. DVI

Nothing is different other than the pinout and that HDMI also carries an
audio signal (if, for example, you have speakers in your monitor but
I've yet to see any monitor with a decent set of speakers).

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hdmi#Compatibility_with_DVI

Does your video card actually support full HDMI where audio is included
its HDMI connector? Where's the audio connection to the video card?

http://www.abccables.com/info-dvi-hdmi.html
"DVI can only support digital video, and HDMI can support audio and
video on the same cable"

So whether you're missing something when using DVI versus HDMI depends
on what your video card supports and just what you're going to use the
audio on the other end of the HDMI cable.

No. I don' t plan on using the audio, so in my case I may as well stay with
DVI hookup, Thanks for the input.

Regards, Rene
 
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