Comment on looking for a dock that let's me connect my DVI monitor
Max_P@lemmy.max-p.me 7 months ago
Simple passive HDMI to DVI-D single link should work for this monitor.
HDMI 1.0 and DVI-D Single Link are electrically identical, so they just work.
It starts getting messy when literally everything else. HDMI to DVI-I (analog) is a no go without an active adapter, because HDMI simply doesn’t have analog signals so it’s got to be converted. Similarly, 1440p over DVI requires DVI-D Dual-Link which is also a no go without an active adapter.
My experience with my expensive DP to DVI-D DL has been poor and full of desyncs. DisplayPort is a packet-based protocol and apparently my Vega 64 has its timings just ever so slightly off and I get rolling black lines and artifacts. Fine on NVIDIA though, but my 1060 had native DVI so useless. I would avoid going through DP if you’re going to DVI.
Another thing with DisplayPort to HDMI: passive cables rely entirely on the source to be smart and be able to switch the wire protocol to HDMI. Not all devices and GPUs support that.
But, for your use case a simple passive HDMI to DVI-D SL should work fine.