Any HD4870 with hdmi coming?

Mech0z

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Anyone that have seen if there will be coming any hd4870 with a real HDMI plug? I dont really like using an adabter as is another place to loose quality. So I would love if some manufacture made a card with one HDMI plug and 1 dvi.

Anyone that have seen anything about this? I have only seen imo shitty gfx cards with real hdmi and I also want to use my card for gaming so thsi is not an option.
 

Creig

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Originally posted by: Mech0z
Anyone that have seen if there will be coming any hd4870 with a real HDMI plug? I dont really like using an adabter as is another place to loose quality. So I would love if some manufacture made a card with one HDMI plug and 1 dvi.

Anyone that have seen anything about this? I have only seen imo shitty gfx cards with real hdmi and I also want to use my card for gaming so thsi is not an option.

You won't lose any quality by using a DVI-HDMI adapter since it's a digital signal. Either the signal makes it to the other end or it doesn't, unlike analog signals that can degrade.

But if you insist on having a dedicated HDMI port, the Powercolor HD 3870X2 has three DVI ports and one HDMI port.

http://www.powercolor.com/Glob...0PCS/PSD/image_b_s.jpg

I'm sure some ATI 48X0 series cards will eventually have one as well as we see more and more vendor-specific designs emerge.