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ATI HD 5870 + LG LED W2486L

Post Date: 2010-02-15
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    Posted: 15 Feb 2010 at 5:21am
Hi

Just got all my parts now.

But I was wondering about the type of cable I should use to connect the ATI HD 5870 with the LG LED 24" W2486L.
The LG LED Monitor has 2 HDMI inputs,
And the HD 5870 has 2 HDMI outputs.

Should I connect them with HDMI cable? Or doesnt it make any difference?

I have seen someone sort of couple the two outputs on their GPU's into 1 cable, an adapter or something, I am not sure. But anyways, should I do that?

Please show me how to get max out of my 2 lovely parts :)

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just one connection is all you need, the monitor might have many inputs to support different sources, and the gpu has different outputs to support different monitors.

in this case you go one gpu and one monitor, so you need one cable to connect the gpu to the monitor using one gpu output and one monitor input.

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HDMI cable or the regular GPU cable?
What is the best?
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not sure what you mean by regular gpu cable, are you refering to vga or dvi?

hdmi has dvi quality and sound, dvi has no sound, vga gives you the least quality of the 3.

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Thanks
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My pleasure     

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