Fps drop with HDMI cable?

mirrorman96 · 4 Aug 2015 at 09:22

I some reason get fps drops on certain games such as tf2. I have a gtx 970 so the fps shoudnt drop to 40 fps. Do you think it could be caused by the HDMI cable becuase it is a really cheap one from a pound shop?

Orcvader · 4 Aug 2015 at 09:36

Very unlikely. What's your system specs?

mushtafa · 4 Aug 2015 at 09:40

HDMI either works or it doesn't. It's a digital signal. Cheap £1 cables are normally fine.

mirrorman96 · 4 Aug 2015 at 09:43

My spec is i5 4460, 10gb ram and gtx 970 with a 500w psu

Sir SpankalotUK · 4 Aug 2015 at 09:51

I would look at what's running in the background.

10gb is a rather odd amount.

mirrorman96 · 4 Aug 2015 at 09:53

It only seems to do it on certain games. And i have 10gb ram becuase I took the 6gb out my old PC and I bought another 4gb.

Glanza · 4 Aug 2015 at 10:05

Is all the ram matching?

Zefan · 4 Aug 2015 at 10:15

mushtafa said:
It's a digital signal.

Well... It isn't, but for the purposes of this discussion it might as well be.

mushtafa · 4 Aug 2015 at 10:31

Zefan said:
Well... It isn't, but for the purposes of this discussion it might as well be.

Please share link to information. Every days a school day.

mirrorman96 · 4 Aug 2015 at 11:27

Glanza said:
Is all the ram matching?

If you mean is the ram the same make, then no it isn't. But before on my old PC it did this and the ram was matching.

russell664 · 4 Aug 2015 at 11:39

What CPU have you got? Bottle neck maybe?

mirrorman96 · 4 Aug 2015 at 11:44

russell664 said:
What CPU have you got? Bottle neck maybe?

I5 4460.

spoffle · 4 Aug 2015 at 11:54

mushtafa said:
Please share link to information. Every days a school day.

The notion that it either works or doesn't is erroneous, as it suggests that you either get a perfect signal, or none at all.

For all intents and purposes it isn't actually far from that, but a dodgy cable will still display a signal, it's just going to be fairly obvious that the signal is damaged in some way, as there will be visual corruption/artifacting.

Zefan · 4 Aug 2015 at 12:15

mushtafa said:
Please share link to information. Every days a school day.

There's no link necessary really. Although the source file and data it represents is absolutely digital - as indeed is the interpretation of the transmitted signal by the receiving device - it remains a fact that there is no such thing as a truly digital transmission.

Anyway, it isn't really relevant to the discussion and I was just being a douche

spoffle · 4 Aug 2015 at 12:16

Zefan said:
There's no link necessary really. Although the source file and data it represents is absolutely digital, there is no such thing as a truly digital transmission.

Do you remember the abuse I got for pointing out that digital signals are still sent in an "analogue" fashion?