decent mega-monitor?

[Lennart Sorensen]

On Thu, Aug 15, 2013 at 11:59:03AM -0400, Lennart Sorensen wrote:
> Dual link DVI can do 2560x1600 @ 60Hz, which means it could do 4k @ 30Hz.
> 
> It would have to be an active adapter.  As far as I can tell, no such
> adapter exists (I think some used to, but no longer do).  I can't even
> find a dual link dvi to display port adapter.  If such a thing existed,
> you would be able to convert that to HDMI 1.4 afterwards (although you
> would be using two active adapters at once).  But no such luck either
> it seems.
> 
> The KVM should just have to pass the monitor's EDID data through and
> the video signal the other way.
> 
> That would be single link only, and depending on what the nvidia does,
> that may or may not include higher link speeds.  If they recognize the
> HDMI adapter being plugged in then they might choose to support HDMI 1.3+
> link speeds, in which case it could do 4k resolution.  If they don't,
> then it will just support 1920x1200.  I suspect most nvidia cards capable
> of HDMI 1.3+ would actually have an HDMI port already on the card.
> 
> Which nvidia card do you have?

I just noticed HDMI 2.0 has been announced which can do 4kx2k at 60HZ.
That should make those new highres displays more usable, as soon as any
of them support HDMI 2.0 (and any video cards do too).

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Len Sorensen
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