DVI cable, worth spending a lot on?

sgoaty · 5 Feb 2006 at 12:35

I am going to buy a DVI cable for using with my Belinea 102035W as I have heard it makes quite a difference and i have noticed they vary greatly in price. Is there any point in buying a cheap one? Can you reccomend a good cable?
thanks
Scott

Cuchulain · 5 Feb 2006 at 12:53

sgoaty said:
I am going to buy a DVI cable for using with my Belinea 102035W as I have heard it makes quite a difference and i have noticed they vary greatly in price. Is there any point in buying a cheap one? Can you reccomend a good cable?
thanks
Scott

I use a dirt cheap one and I suspect that a lot of places are selling exactly the same cable at a huge mark-up.

INFECTION · 5 Feb 2006 at 14:14

sounds about right i seen cables like £20 + but i found one in a shop for £5 so am gonna go with that i wouldnt go spending a lot on it due to it only does one thing

NathanE · 6 Feb 2006 at 11:32

DVI is digital and has error control. Therefore it will either work at 100% quality or not at all.

MadMatty · 6 Feb 2006 at 13:30

This monitor doesnt work as well as I want it to via DVI from my ATI card. I have to wait until the windows drivers are loaded before I see the dvi output :| . That means no post/boot screens which is still kinda required for selecting an os for dual booting.

sgoaty · 6 Feb 2006 at 20:24

Thats a bit strange I hope my £3.75 dvi cable doesnt bring me the sme fate or it will get binned. No chance to OC :eek:

NathanE · 6 Feb 2006 at 23:52

MadMatty said:
This monitor doesnt work as well as I want it to via DVI from my ATI card. I have to wait until the windows drivers are loaded before I see the dvi output :| . That means no post/boot screens which is still kinda required for selecting an os for dual booting.

I doubt that is down to the cable. Sounds more like a problem with your monitor or graphics card.

MadMatty · 7 Feb 2006 at 10:01

NathanE said:
I doubt that is down to the cable. Sounds more like a problem with your monitor or graphics card.

Well ati cards are known for there weird dvi issues :/ . My previous AOC LM919 and shortlived L90D did work fine on the dvi port though.

fish99 · 7 Feb 2006 at 11:41

sgoaty said:
DVI cable, worth spending a lot on?

No

sgoaty · 15 Feb 2006 at 19:43

Well I got the cable and it works but I get flickering for a split second now and again. Like the screen is switching off then on again really fast. Its usually when opening a window. I went back to using my VGA cable and its fine now. So its either the cheap cable or the input on my 10 20 35W

Baddass · 15 Feb 2006 at 20:39

have you made sure you're running at 60Hz refresh rate?

sgoaty · 16 Feb 2006 at 10:25

Yeah it was all set up correctly

Event Horizon · 16 Feb 2006 at 14:08

Are you by any chance using watercooling?

Air_Fresh3 · 16 Feb 2006 at 22:28

no asking for competitor info please

sgoaty · 19 Feb 2006 at 10:02

sorry for the slow reply just air cooling here

Caged · 19 Feb 2006 at 13:25

My first Dell 1704 did that, replacement was fine.

sgoaty · 19 Feb 2006 at 14:44

Oh dear i better get another cable and if thats sthe same then Contact Maxdata