My video card is supposed to have HDMI out but the cable won't fit

[Deep Blue Dream]

hi. I have this video card: BFG GTX 285 1024 OC PCIE2

It is supposed to have an HDMI output but besides the 2 DVI out plugs all I see is a round plug that looks sort of like those old S-video plugs. I just got an HDMI monitor and want to hook it up to my card with HDMI but that round plug is totally the wrong shape for the cable I have.

Do I need an adapter? What is that roundish blug and how am I supposed to hook up an HDMI cable to it?

thanks.

 

[TemjinGold]

Your card should've come with a DVI -> HDMI adaptor.

 

[Deep Blue Dream]

OK thanks I found the adapter. Is it better to use an hdmi cable with a dvi adapter rather than a straight dvi cable? I plugged in the adapter I think the monitor looks a little better with the HDMI cable and adapter but I might be imagining it

thanks

 

[mmnno]

OK thanks I found the adapter. Is it better to use an hdmi cable with a dvi adapter rather than a straight dvi cable? I plugged in the adapter I think the monitor looks a little better with the HDMI cable and adapter but I might be imagining it

thanks

You're imagining it. Some monitors have overscan or a different color preset on their HDMI input if there's also a DVI input, but usually they are the same.

 

[Binky]

DVI *should* look the same as HDMI, but this assumes that all of your equipment is 100% perfect. With everything mass produced in China, it's entirely possible to have a adaptor/cable/input that causes problems. If you don't need the audio carrying capability of the HDMI, just use the DVI.

 

[reallyscrued]

DVI *should* look the same as HDMI, but this assumes that all of your equipment is 100% perfect. With everything mass produced in China, it's entirely possible to have a adaptor/cable/input that causes problems.

No. It's a digital signal. If there is a problem with the adapter, you'd definitely notice.

Like other's have mentioned, presets for HDMI coupled with overscan will make DVI and HDMI inputs appear different when the signal being transmitted is actually identical.

Just use whichever your eye prefers.

 

[Ichinisan]

Most NVIDIA cards require an internal SPDIF cable to connect from a motherboard / sound card header to the video card so it can pass digital audio out to the HDMI adapter.