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Just purchased a dell u2515h. Only have hdmi at the min due to graphics cards. But it does have 2 mini display ports on it. I take it that I cant connect from that to the display port on the monitor.
If I was to get a mini display port to mini display port cable. Would I get full res then?
Or am I going to have to bite the bullet and get a graphics card with a full display port port on it.
Hope that make sense. It did in my head haha
 
Yes, you can. Yes, you would.. If I understood your question correctly. The size of the port is irrelevant. It's either DP or it isn't.

Having said that, it's debateable as to whether you would actually be able to tell the difference between HDMI and DP anyway...
 
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Often the hdmi port only does tv resolutions and not the super sharp 1:1 native resolution of the panel. If that is the case then just use a mini dp to do cable. That is what I use.
 
I'll have to look at it tomorrow as I couldn't get it to work with the mini dp end in the gfx card and the full size dp end in the monitor.
Bit more research me thinks

Thanks for the help thou much appreciated
 
I tried them all, HDMI, DP, DVI... came back to most oldschool of the lot DVI-I after buying gaming monitors to have a dual screen setup with netflix on screen 2. The gaming monitors are 140Hz and only DVI-I supports that!
 
nass said:
I tried them all, HDMI, DP, DVI... came back to most oldschool of the lot DVI-I after buying gaming monitors to have a dual screen setup with netflix on screen 2. The gaming monitors are 140Hz and only DVI-I supports that!
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I'm sure display port supports it as well. But as always with these kind of things when you have specialist needs it will be determined by a combination of monitor, graphics card, drivers, operating system, cable etc.
 
Well it can be lower, but I havn't seen it documented being able to set higher than 120, nor was I able to. Have you come across something, can you point me to anything that shows 144Hz on DP?
 
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Well it can be lower, but I havn't seen it documented being able to set higher than 120, nor was I able to. Have you come across something, can you point me to anything that shows 144Hz on DP?
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As I said, it depends on the resolution. It can't do it at 4K or 5K, but it has the bandwidth to do it at 1080p or even 1440p by my calculations.
 
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