Will this DVI cable work?

[danzaman]

I am buying a DVI cable online for my new computer. I have attached a diagram below of what my DVI out looks like from my video card and the cable I'm buying. Will this cable work properly even though it has missing connectors in the middle column and the connector on the left is horizontal as opposed to a cross shape?

Any help would be appreciated

 

[ashmedai]

Female DVI connectors all look more or less like that. The DVI cable you're showing has two male single-link connectors, and will work fine provided you weren't wanting to use dual-link.

Sorry about the horrible contrast on the text, I stole it shamelessly from Wikipedia. The person that uploaded it was all clever and used transparency, but apparently didn't foresee that I'd be posting it on the dark gray background of [H]ardforum.

 

[Oooska]

The cable is known as a "single link" cable. Your video card support dual-link DVI, hence the extra pins. Unless you're running a 30" LCD, you're fine with that cable.

 

[danzaman]

I am only running a 22" Acer Monitor and when you say dual-link, do you mean some type of splitter? My video card has (2) DVI outputs, so I'm assuming I won't need to do that if i want to run multiple monitors

 

[Shabby610]

I am only running a 22" Acer Monitor and when you say dual-link, do you mean some type of splitter? My video card has (2) DVI outputs, so I'm assuming I won't need to do that if i want to run multiple monitors

Dual-link cables have a full set of pins compared to single-link ones. Everything runs off of one cable no matter if it is single-link or dual-link, but the pins provide some extra bandwidth for the high resolutions that 30" monitors can achieve.