HDMI & 4890

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I'm thinking of picking up a 4890 with the HDMI output already built onto the card. I was wondering if any of you are using the HDMI output and how's it act for ya? Plug and Play? Or a nightmare to set it up?
 
Most if not all 4890s come with a dvi to HDMI adapter that does the same thing as what a HDMI input plug would do. Or i think they come with one. You just put the adapter on and use a HDMI cable for your TV and you get video and audio with no problems. So you are not using a DVI to HDMI cable here it is a small adapter that comes with the card. I use this with my Samsung TV for the HDMI audio you get.
 
My HD4350 uses a DVI to HDMI adapter like the 4890's do.

It was an absolute breeze to setup. The catalyst drivers now even install the audio drivers for the onboard realtek HDMI audio chip. When I plugged it into my HDTV, it simply worked, and the drivers even detected the correct resolution 720P.

The only thing remotely difficult to setup is playing with the windows audio settings depending on whether you want HDMI audio versus onboard/sound card....but even thats easy to setup.
 
Thanks for the information... Do you know if the audio is lossless? I plan on using my Onkyo 705 receiver to do all the decoding of the channels. Was curious if the audio is 7.1 lossless capable?
 
Just for my personal faq file, you do have to connect an audio cable to your video card to send audio over HDMI right? Or does it all pass digitally these days kind of like how the cable from the sound card to the CD-ROM is no longer necessary?
 
Prod1702 said:
Most if not all 4890s come with a dvi to HDMI adapter that does the same thing as what a HDMI input plug would do. Or i think they come with one. You just put the adapter on and use a HDMI cable for your TV and you get video and audio with no problems. So you are not using a DVI to HDMI cable here it is a small adapter that comes with the card. I use this with my Samsung TV for the HDMI audio you get.
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Yep, my XFX one came with two DVI>HDMIS.
 
OldPueblo said:
Just for my personal faq file, you do have to connect an audio cable to your video card to send audio over HDMI right? Or does it all pass digitally these days kind of like how the cable from the sound card to the CD-ROM is no longer necessary?
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An excellent question. If video cards can't pass the HD audio then HDMI cards are sort of neutered.
 
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