The card I am going to buy is a Sapphire ATI Radeon HD 5770 which has 2x Dual-Link DVI-I and 1x HDMI outputs. My monitor will be a Viewsonic VX2260wm 22" Widescreen LCD Monitor which has 1x DVI-D and 1x HDMI inputs at 1920x1080.
Which type of DVI cable should I buy? Should I consider HDMI for any reason?
Answer
The video part of HDMI is electrically equivalent to DVI-D, so you will have the same quality signal, whether you go for HDMI or DVI.
You can put a male DVI-D connector into a female DVI-I connector, so you can connect the card to your monitor using a DVI-D cable.
That said, a decent HDMI lead can be bought for around $10. If you intend to watch HDCP content, then you need an HDMI lead. To ensure HDMI playback of HDCP content all parts of the signal chain must be HDCP compliant, as far as I can make out the monitor and graphics card are both HDCP compliant so if I were you I'd get an HDMI lead.
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