Any difference between HDMI/DVI and straight HDMI ?

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my new ASUS TOP 4870 512MB does not have HDMI but it does
come with an DVI to HDMI adapter.

does anyone know if there is any loss in quality between what the
adapter provides over a straight HDMI to HDMI connection ?
 
Loss in quality? Not at all, its the exact same signal, just a different connector. Its digital...

walman said:
DVI does not carry sound, but the picture and DRM should be the same.
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Not entirely true. Video cards with only a DVI connector but a S/PDIF in WILL pass audio over the DVI port if you then connect a DVI>HDMI adapter. Of course you have to run a S/PDIF line from you're soundcard/motherboard to the S/PDIF header on the video card. Most newer Nvidia cards that don't have native HDMI ports do this.
 
thanks for the replies.

it seems that i will lose automatic screen formatting through the adapter.

thats important because i had some scaling issues with my new card
 
you don't need to connect sound cables internally - the vid card will pass through audio over hdmi independent of your sound card, but you will have to select different audio apart from your regular audio (whether a sound card or onboard/motherboard audio)
 
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you don't need to connect sound cables internally - the vid card will pass through audio over hdmi independent of your sound card, but you will have to select different audio apart from your regular audio (whether a sound card or onboard/motherboard audio)
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Only true with ATI cards.
 
Yea, ATI's cards have internal sound(7.1 I believe but I could be wrong) where as Nvidia's need that S/PDIF connector.
 
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