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Looking for a bit of advice.
Currently I have an old OCUK Primio home office pc, with the following specs:
AMD A8-6600K APU with Radeon(tm) HD Graphics
8GB ram
Asus A88XM-A motherboard, which has VGA / HDMI / DVI-D ports for video.
Now the monitor I'm considering upgrading my Dell 2007 WFP is a Dell U2715H for photo editing use.
The fly in the ointment is that the Dell U2715H has only HDMI & Display Port / Mini Display Port. Uunfortunatly it would appear from the specification for my motherboard that it won't be able to do a high enough resolution for the screen via HDMI.
So I may well need to add a discrete GPU for my system (which I had been considering for a while anyway). I won't be gaming on the system, so I'd be looking to spend at most £50 on a suitable gpu. Now I run linux on my machine, and I believe that Nvidia cards are still better supported than Radeon cards? I would want however similar or better gpu performance than that on my AMD gpu. Ideally I'd just use the discrete card, rather than both the GPU & onboard graphics. However there does not seem to be much choice in the lower end of the GPU market for graphics cards which have displayport output!
Or are there such a thing as a DVI-D to Display Port adaptor, and would these run at 1440p resolution of the monitor?
I certainly didn't have this problem when I bought the old Dell 2007 WFP years ago!
Suggestions welcomed,
Currently I have an old OCUK Primio home office pc, with the following specs:
AMD A8-6600K APU with Radeon(tm) HD Graphics
8GB ram
Asus A88XM-A motherboard, which has VGA / HDMI / DVI-D ports for video.
Now the monitor I'm considering upgrading my Dell 2007 WFP is a Dell U2715H for photo editing use.
The fly in the ointment is that the Dell U2715H has only HDMI & Display Port / Mini Display Port. Uunfortunatly it would appear from the specification for my motherboard that it won't be able to do a high enough resolution for the screen via HDMI.
So I may well need to add a discrete GPU for my system (which I had been considering for a while anyway). I won't be gaming on the system, so I'd be looking to spend at most £50 on a suitable gpu. Now I run linux on my machine, and I believe that Nvidia cards are still better supported than Radeon cards? I would want however similar or better gpu performance than that on my AMD gpu. Ideally I'd just use the discrete card, rather than both the GPU & onboard graphics. However there does not seem to be much choice in the lower end of the GPU market for graphics cards which have displayport output!
Or are there such a thing as a DVI-D to Display Port adaptor, and would these run at 1440p resolution of the monitor?
I certainly didn't have this problem when I bought the old Dell 2007 WFP years ago!
Suggestions welcomed,