DVI dual link, HDMI, or DisplayPort for PC Gaming???

[Jesse Kemmerling]

I am building a Gaming PC and I ran into a problem connecting the graphics card to the monitor. I don't know which to use, DVI-D Dual link, HDMI, or Display Port. My graphics card will be a gigabyte 770 4gb and my monitor is an ASUS 144hz 1ms response time monitor. Im planning on playing games with my monitor at 120-144hz, I've heard a lot about the three cable options and I've researched but I am still confused. I want to make sure that the choice I make will have the best video quality along with the largest bandwidth (hz) so I can get the 120- 144 hz the monitor gives me.
Thanks, sorry that was a lot to read but im stuck. Let me know what you guys think!

 

[ryce4lyfe]

Sorry if this is off topic but does the ASUS VG248QE come with a displayport cable?

 

[Luke_66]

Sorry if this is off topic but does the ASUS VG248QE come with a displayport cable?

most newer 120/144hz monitors do, i recently bought a BenQ XL2430T and it came with dual link DVI and a DP. Also tells me if my DVI isn't dual-link hehe

 

[Derek Chan]

I'm pretty sure the monitor you're using is an asus vg248qe and doing some research on it I think it should come with a dual link dvi cable. It's best if you stick with that as it should be more reliable since it's oem and because it saves money. It's your own choice to buy a display port cable. Displayport should have the highest bandwidth compared to all others and G-sync seems to require display port.

 

[Exia00]

I know this is an old posting but would Display to HDMI or Dual Link DVI to HDMI work for 120Hz because i am using a 32" 1080p LED TV right now and the thing is it has 3 HDMI ports only for video and my GPU is a GTX 1050 Ti but would like to know if those display converters will help or not because 60Hz is not bad but just got this TV and was hoping to get 120Hz.

 

[bystander]

I know this is an old posting but would Display to HDMI or Dual Link DVI to HDMI work for 120Hz because i am using a 32" 1080p LED TV right now and the thing is it has 3 HDMI ports only for video and my GPU is a GTX 1050 Ti but would like to know if those display converters will help or not because 60Hz is not bad but just got this TV and was hoping to get 120Hz.

You need to find out if that TV supports HDMI 2.0. If it does not, you cannot use HDMI and get true 120hz. If it does, just use a high speed HDMI cable if you have a port on that GPU.

 

[Exia00]

I know this is an old posting but would Display to HDMI or Dual Link DVI to HDMI work for 120Hz because i am using a 32" 1080p LED TV right now and the thing is it has 3 HDMI ports only for video and my GPU is a GTX 1050 Ti but would like to know if those display converters will help or not because 60Hz is not bad but just got this TV and was hoping to get 120Hz.

You need to find out if that TV supports HDMI 2.0. If it does not, you cannot use HDMI and get true 120hz. If it does, just use a high speed HDMI cable if you have a port on that GPU.

Well the first HDMI port has HDMI 1.4 and MHL 1.2 the other 2 HDMI ports are 1.4 only.

 

[bystander]

That means you cannot get true 120hz. You are out of luck. All you can get is that interpolation method, which is terrible for PC use, as it causes a ton of latency.