HDMI to DVI

[Cian]

I plan to have my monitors setup as follows;

DVI - DVI

Active DP - DVI

And I am unsure about the next one, my graphics card is the 280x Toxic by Sapphire, I was considering using HDMI to DVI-D but last time I used HDMI on my pc to monitor it created black bars around my monitor?

Will my graphics card/monitor recognise this cable as DVI because I really dont want to be running a 3 monitor setup with 1 monitor having black bars.

Thanks,

Cian

[ForsakenLive]

Those 3 black bars aren't normal, have you tried a different cable?

If it's not the cable, you might want to RMA that GPU.

If you can't then the DVI to HDMI will work properly.

Btw, how many monitors do you have?

[Cian]

Well I honestly think it was the port because both DVI-D and DVI-I work perfectly, as an alternative, could I use the DVI-I port instead of the HDMI port?

Currently I have one but im planning on getting 2 more

[JHurley747]

Make sure you bought a quality cable. Right now I am using DVI to HDMI and it is working great. But check the type of DVI on your monitor and make sure your cable face will work

[Cian]

Could I use the DVI-I port to use a Dual Link DVI-D to HDMI adapter?

[Cian]

It turns out that the reason my HDMI wasn't covering up my whole monitor was that in CCC scaling was at 15%? once I turned that down to 0%, the black bars went away, so what im asking is, can you use eyefinity with one connection being just HDMI? and the others being DVI and DP ofcourse,

 

Thanks,

Cian.

[-rascal-]

It turns out that the reason my HDMI wasn't covering up my whole monitor was that in CCC scaling was at 15%? once I turned that down to 0%, the black bars went away, so what im asking is, can you use eyefinity with one connection being just HDMI? and the others being DVI and DP ofcourse,

 

Thanks,

Cian.

 

I don't know why people didn't jump to the "under-scale and over-scale" options in CCC first...instead of saying faulty HDMI cable.

 

Yes, you can have one connection being natively HDMI. As long as one of the three monitors is connected via the DisplayPort, you are okay to go.

HDMI and DVI are both essentially the exact same thing; both digital. HDMI is simply

• more compact (physical connector size)
• passes audio through the HDMI header (instead of needing to connect a separate audio cable)