Cables Where From? Does it matter?

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I'll hopefully be moving house soon and the room I've nominated a room as a PC room and basically I'll be able to set up my system however I want and wondering if I was to by say new power cables or DVI-D cables does it matter where or are those cables just cables?

The ones I'm using at the moment are just on the short side and I know once I get moved they will definitely be to short

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Doesn't really matter they're all standards. Obviously OCUK ones are the best though.

Display port can be different if you're using that.
 
mrk said:
What makes the OcUK ones the best? :p
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OCUK sell their cables to AudioQuest they use them in the Diamond series with a huge markup from what OCUK sell them at.

Seriously just look for the reviews of AudioQuest's Diamond HDMI knock your socks off.
 
Was on a verge of an angry shouting match in Currys a few weeks ago when buying a TV that was on sale and the salesman would not stop trying to sell me a £40 HDMI cable.....
 
Wrathamon said:
Was on a verge of an angry shouting match in Currys a few weeks ago when buying a TV that was on sale and the salesman would not stop trying to sell me a £40 HDMI cable.....
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Quite often the sales people in these places have little clue what they're talking about, and are often commission based to. Leads to lots of people buying expensive stuff they don't need!
 
Avoid Tesco.

Saw an RF lead in there the other day, which the box described as ideal to connect your PC / laptop to your router / network.

No wonder some people seem so confused with technology, imagine your nan trying to network her new PC up with an RF lead.
 
Arsonist said:
Quite often the sales people in these places have little clue what they're talking about, and are often commission based to.
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I know that.

But if a potential customer says 'No' to a ridiculous cable, 'No' to accidental damage cover, 'No' to a TV stand... surely having to say it once is enough?

Why should I have to repeat myself about twenty times "I just want to buy the telly!" over the course of about 10 minutes of actually just trying to buy it!

Don't they want the sale? They very nearly lost it!
 
Kenai said:
Avoid Tesco.

Saw an RF lead in there the other day, which the box described as ideal to connect your PC / laptop to your router / network.

No wonder some people seem so confused with technology, imagine your nan trying to network her new PC up with an RF lead.
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It worked fine for me :s I struggled to get the end into the orange connector at the back of the PC labeled "spdif" :s but then other either connected onto the router just fine. All I had to do was remove one of the aerial things.
 
Makes no difference, it'll either work or it wont.

I remember one of those curries idiots regurgitating fiction about how the gold plated connectors on their £50 HDMI lead will be the image better, you can;t explain to them its a digital signal cos they don't know what that is. Was buying a Blu Ray player for my Nan, otherwise I would have gone elsewhere. The guy wound me up enough to take the £100 player back and come back with the £40 one.
 
Cat_J said:
Makes no difference, it'll either work or it wont.

I remember one of those curries idiots regurgitating fiction about how the gold plated connectors on their £50 HDMI lead will be the image better, you can;t explain to them its a digital signal cos they don't know what that is. Was buying a Blu Ray player for my Nan, otherwise I would have gone elsewhere. The guy wound me up enough to take the £100 player back and come back with the £40 one.
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The hilarious part is that the gold bit on the HDMI cable carries no signal at all, it's just outer metal sheathing.
 
Thing is a bad quality HDMI cable WILL cause erroneous data transmission. It's not as simple as "it will either work or not". There's a million+ pixels to be fed continuously with data. Transmission errors in a continuous digital data stream can and do occur, and will manifest in the form of small and barely visible artefacts.

I've had a couple cheap cables and they cause very small errors/spots at the sub-pixel level, you have to put your face a couple inches from the screen to actually see it but bad cables do cause problems.

Before anyone says, no I'm not saying it's worth spending more than £15 on an HDMI cable, I'm just saying some really cheap ones do cause data loss.

I would reccommend OcUK though, the cable I purchased years ago is still going strong.
 
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