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I am receiving a new computer for the holidays and it is a little over my head. It will have an SLI and the monitor has two DVI ports. Where do the DVI cables come from?

One from each card or both DVI cords from one? The monitor is capable of 1920x1600 resolution so I want to make sure I am not missing anything.

Thanks in advance.

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one dvi cable from the top card to the monitor should work fine.

Reply to sirheck
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You mean the video card has 2 DVI ports?

Reply to mpjesse

Its probably 1920x1200, 24" wide screen.

The monitor may have two DVI inputs, but that's because you can connect two computers or a computer and a HD receiver or whatever.

1920x1200 is the largest resolution that can be run on "Single Link" DVI.

"Dual Link" DVI is still a single cable, but more pins. Some old monitors that are 2560x1600 or more use two Single Link cables instead.

DVI-D Single Link:
http://www.datapro.net/images/dvi_ds.gif

DVI-D Dual Link:
http://www.datapro.net/images/dvi_dd.gif

DVI-A (Analogue over DVI)
http://www.datapro.net/images/dvi_a.gif

Those are just the cables, the sockets will accept any of those :)

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