Blue|Fusion
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 Posted: Mon, 04 Feb 2008 13:50:56 Post Subject: DVI Cable Length |
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Hey guys. I purchased myself a 50' DVI-D dual link cable last week new on eBay. I got it over the weekend and brought it back up to my dorm last night. I'm connecting it to my projector which is running 1024x768 DVI-D. I can used to hook it up to my laptop but that's annoying to have to pull out and hook up when we want to watch a movie.
So that cable I mentioned was hooked up to my old 7800GTX in my desktop to be a part-time triple head rig. I have my two monitors on the 8800GTS 512MB running TwinView and I can get the projector to work as a screen of its own (this is in Linux) with the use of a spare short DVI-D cable.
The problems comes in when I connect to the 50' cable. I read after the fact that the max DVI length is 5 meters (around 16 feet). So my question is is there a way to boost the signal over this cable or am I SOL?
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