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Pierre Olivier Vidal

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I bought a 1440p monitor and am looking to buy the cable to plug my pc on it.

I will have to run 15 feet or more ( less then 30 ), if I buy a regular mDP to hdmi converter and a 25ft high speed hdmi will i be ok?
Should I buy an active converter and an active hdmi cable?
 
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rhysiam

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As soon as you start adding adapters you can throw the distance specs and any 'guarantee' of it working out the window unfortunately. It might work, it might not. Plus, lots of DP to HDMI cables won't run 1440p.

Can you run a single (native) cable with no adapters? That would be better. Just get a 15-30ft HDMI cable. Or if your monitor has DP, just get a long DP cable.
 
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My gpu has mDP out, and I can't seem to find a cable mdp to dp/hdmi the right lenght THAT WILL SHIP TO CANADA... i have found a converter and an hdmi cable both speced at 4k30 or 1440p60, the question is the lenght, should i buy active or normal?
 
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rhysiam

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Surely your GPU doesn't ONLY have miniDP? It must have a HDMI and DVI too no?

What I'm suggesting is if you stick to a native (non adapter) cable then you can be pretty sure it'll work. So what does both your GPU + display BOTH have? DVI? HDMI? DP? Whichever one it is, get a cable of the right length with the same connector at both ends and it should work (if DVI, make sure you get a DL-DVI cable).

The issue is that as soon as you add an adapter/converter you're getting signal loss, how much... you have no way of knowing. A (decent quality) cable will be tested to ensure it can maintain the signal over its distance, but they won't account for additional loss that comes from an adapter.
 
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With respect, I've made the same suggestion in two posts now and you haven't responded to it.

An adapter + cable MIGHT work... a native cable WILL work (provided you get the right one).

If there's a good reason why you can't do what I've been suggesting from the start then please post it here and we can decide whether you can work around it or whether you're better risking an adapter. But until you answer that question... you have my advice already.
 
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My computer sends out in mdp and dvi-d ( not sure ) and my monitor support dp and hdmi, i dont necessarely need a converter, but atleast a cable with 2 different connections. Thing is, I don't know, 10.2gb/sec mdp/hdmi cable that long doesn't seem to ship in canada. The only one I found was on amazon.com and it wouldn't ship to canada
 
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That's a very nice product that would make my life easier, but does this cable support 1440p?

Edit : doesn't look like it. They have the same cable but 4k ready with a maximum length of 6 ft. startech has a 10 ft one, but no 15 - 30 ft.
 
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omg that would save my life! thank you so much!! If it wasn't for you I was going to buy an active converter and active 30 ft.

I don't think I would've lost any signal over 30 ft since it's an active/redmere cable and I don't think the converter needs to be active since it's only 0.3 ft but I would've bought it just to be sure. The only question I had was if it's would work at 1440p, they both are speced at 4k60 but you never know right?

Edit : on another note, ALL this talking about active hdmi is because 15 ft is the minimum I need, optimal would be 25-30 ft, anyways I can extend that 15 ft cable without losing the signal?
 
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