Trouble with Dvi D and Dvi i

justin5885

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I'm going to be buying a gtx 750 1gb Superclocked but the display ports on it have an hdmi port and a Dual-link DVI-I port I believe but what it says is just dual link DVI what my monitor has is a dual link Dvi-d from what I've researched and I'm planning on buying a cable for it but I'm not sure if Dvi-d cables fit into the gtx 750's supposed dual link DVI.
 
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DVI-I is not an actual signal specification, it is a combination of DVI-A and DVI-D in the same socket.

DVI ports on graphics cards are almost always DVI-I. Most graphics cards have either a pair of Dual-Link DVI-I ports, or a Dual-Link DVI-I port and a Single-Link DVI-I port.

A Dual-Link DVI-I port can be passively connected to any of the following display inputs:

VGA...


DVI-I is not an actual signal specification, it is a combination of DVI-A and DVI-D in the same socket.

DVI ports on graphics cards are almost always DVI-I. Most graphics cards have either a pair of Dual-Link DVI-I ports, or a Dual-Link DVI-I port and a Single-Link DVI-I port.

A Dual-Link DVI-I port can be passively connected to any of the following display inputs:

VGA
DVI-A
HDMI
Single-Link DVI-D
Dual-Link DVI-D
 
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