Paul Hartman <paul.hartman+gentoo <at> gmail.com> writes:
> I've never tried the HDMI, so I can't say how it behaves, but yeah it > came with a DVI to HDMI dongle thing. As far as I know the video > signal in HDMI and DVI are identical, and that HDMI is basically like > "DVI with sound". I could be wrong about that though. Electrically DVI-D and HDMI are compatible, with converter (your dongle). HDMI does run software based protocols that dvi do not have the capability to run/understand. That why you need and HDMI output on the video card directly to get into auto negotiated protocols between HDMI devices. This is all not to be confused with Intel's evil "HDCP" http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HDCP This is one aspect of why I never purchase anything from Intel. Evil, Evil Evil....... > One thing to beware of with this particular card is that it is HUGE, > both in length and the big Arctic Cooling heat sink causes it to be > very tall. I have an enormous thermaltake armour case and it was still > a tight squeeze. If your case is less than 9 inches wide I don't know > if it would fit. My case is 7" wide. Nice to know. I did find a passively cool 8500GT but I'm not sure it will be sufficient for gaming: http://www.tigerdirect.com/applications/SearchTools/ item-details.asp?EdpNo=4283330&CatId=1826 How would I know if this will work very well with bzflag (that the game my kids are hooked on...)? James
