HIS Iceq 6950 and eyefinity DVI Cables????

[dalehitchy1]

never had dvi cables before and this is really confusing me. jus got 3 monitors... Benq G2420HDBL...

need to get 3 dvi cables... but the GPU has ...

1x Single Link DVI-D
1x Dual Link DVI-I
1x HDMI
2x Mini DP....

Ive ordered the XFX mini DP to Single Link DVI...
http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=CB-000-XF

but according to this image
http://johnandlileth.com/Portals/3/Blog/dvi_connector_types.gif
DVI-SL has a few more pins...

im sorry im sounding really dumb... i need 3 dvi cables... which ones do i need??

 

[dalehitchy1]

grr its so confusing.. i swear they have named them wrong

 

[Surveyor]

The monitors have a DVI-D connection so you need 3 single link DVI-D cables.

1 cable will connect to the DVI-D on the graphics card.

1 cable will connect to the DVI-I on the graphics card.

1 cable will connect to the DVI-D from your DisplayPort adapter.

You can use Dual Link DVI-D cables but you won't see any benefit from them.

You definately don't want DVI-I cables as they won't fit in the DVI-D connector on the monitors.

 

[dalehitchy1]

The monitors have a DVI-D connection so you need 3 single link DVI-D cables.

1 cable will connect to the DVI-D on the graphics card.

1 cable will connect to the DVI-I on the graphics card.

1 cable will connect to the DVI-D from your DisplatPort adapter.

but this is what is confusing me... the adapter i have bought.. and the single link port has more pins then this http://www.datapro.net/images/1141.jpg
but aparently there both dvi-d single link????

 

[Surveyor]

The connector has more pins than the cable but for a single link connector some of them aren't connected to anything.

Only enough pins in the connector are wired up to provide single link operation.

 

[cmndr_andi]

The connector has more pins than the cable but for a single link connector some of them aren't connected to anything.

Only enough pins in the connector are wired up to provide single link operation.

+1

Looking at the image, the XFX adapter has all the pins for a dual-link DVI-D connection, but is only wired up to drive a single-link connection.

This means you can plug in either a single-link or dual-link DVI-D cable into the adapter and it will work fine - though be limited to single-link bandwidth (which determines the maximum resolution/refresh rate), but this is plenty for a 1080p @60Hz monitor like the BenQ.

If the monitors didn't come with DVI cables, then three of these would be the ones I would go for.