144 hz needed

[brickreig]

I currently have a GIGABYTE GeForce GTX 1060 6gb G1 and i just up graded to a Acer GN276HL Black 27" Gaming Monitor and since hdmi dosnt support 144 hz i need to know what cable to get for this since there are 2 diffrent types of DVI ports on the gpu and the monitor. the gpu has DVI-D and the monitor has just normal DVI. would that be enough for 144hz or would i have to get a diffrent monitor? any help would be great.

happy hollidays.

 

[Glenwing]

DVI-D is "normal DVI".

What you need is a "Dual-Link DVI-D" cable.

 

[brickreig]

I think that the d part on the dvi d cable threw me off cause I didn't know what there was only dvi d and etc.. types of cables for it I thought that there was just a dvi cable.

 

[Glenwing]

I think that the d part on the dvi d cable threw me off cause I didn't know what there was only dvi d and etc.. types of cables for it I thought that there was just a dvi cable.

There are two types of DVI connections, which are Single-Link DVI and Dual-Link DVI. SL-DVI goes up to 1080p 60 Hz, DL-DVI goes up to 1080p 144 Hz. These are the only two types of DVI cables too, Single-Link DVI and Dual-Link DVI cables.

DVI-D and DVI-I are types of ports; "-D" ports only support DVI connections (both Single and Dual link), while "-I" supports DVI (Single and Dual) and VGA connections. If you are using it for a DVI connection then DVI-D and DVI-I is the same thing, the only difference is one has VGA compatibility as an extra feature.

In rare cases a graphics card may have a port that only supports Single-Link DVI, but most of the time they support both SL and DL connections. I haven't seen an SL-only port on a graphics card in a few years.

Since your graphics card will almost certainly be Dual-Link capable, and any 144 Hz monitor with a DVI port is also Dual-Link capable, and you aren't using VGA adapters, the only thing you really need to account for is that you use a Dual-Link DVI cable and not a Single-Link DVI cable.