Did I buy a dodgy HDMI cable?

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Hi folks

I wanted to hook up my 4k hdr tv to my gpu via hdmi so I can play more chilled games on it.

I bought a 4 metre hdmi 2.0 4k 60hz cable from Amazon for about £8 and having some problems so wanted to check with more knowledegable peeps as to whether I bought a dodgy cable which is what I am suspecting!

Everything works fine until I send an HDR signal to the tv through the cable and then I get pixel artifacts...hard to explain but kind of empty pixels dotted all over the screen. Not only this but the tv will randomly flash its picture on and off.

Sending 4k, 60hz, 10bit WITHOUT switching on Windows HDR makes the white dots disappear but then the screen will randomly lose signal...only 8bit solves the problem.

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Managed to sort it so leaving this to help anyone else in future.

Turns out the cable I bought going from PC to soundbar was fine - it was actually the cable I had going from soundbar to TV that wasn't up to the task - I guess Amazon basic cables are a little too 'basic' at times :D
 
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