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Two different specs for same model number, what's going on here ?
Two different specs for same E-VGA GT 1030 low profile, passive card:
https://s.eet.eu/icmedia/mmo_3725334..._1431_5986.pdf vs https://www.evga.com/Products/Specs/...F-07065ACF1BF1 First one states "dual-link dvi" Second one "official" one states "single-link dvi" Plus some other features are different. So what is going on here ? Is somebody intentionally spreading miss-information ? Or does E-VGA not known their own products and somebody decided to correct/update the info ?!?!? Max resolution kinda also different. I have come across so much conflicting information, it's insane. 1920x1200 vs 1920x1080, single vs dual link. Fake screenshots. Asus for example has a fake picture showing a dual-link dvi connector, notice carefully how the heatsink is not matching. https://www.asus.com/Graphics-Cards/...G-BRK/gallery/ Picture 3 is clearly fake. Compare this to the old card I have GT 520: https://www.asus.com/Graphics-Cards/...GD3LP/gallery/ The heatsink is missing but at least the connectors are genuine. Conclusion, the third picture is delibrately faked to try and make people believe it's dual-link dvi, while in reality it's probably single-link dvi. Anyway time for some confirmation from youtube, which is pretty insane: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PplTpoj5fxU There is actually a cap over this connector ? WTF ?! Thankfully the guy removes it... and it does look like a dual-link dvi-d connector ? HUH ? At least E-VGA has a bit more honest screenshots: https://www.evga.com/products/produc...02G-P4-6332-KR Now you know why "unboxing videos" exists. If you ever do an unboxing video of any electronics, make sure to show the product from all 6 sides, and nice zoom in's and close ups from all 6 sides =D E-VGA GT 1030 video, shown from all sides: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rQcZHPrPbSI Here a dual-link dvi connector can also be seen. Now occording to the wikipedia article, single link connectors are supposed to be different, there is suppossed to be a little gap in between, so dual won't fit. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital_Visual_Interface However by using dual-link connectors, single and dual link connectors will fit as well. So now here is the question: If it's so easy to "FAKE" single link into dual link, do you believe the DVI-standard is TOTALLY ****ING RETARDED ?! If you answered NO, than you a ****ing RETARD LOL. But here is the real question: What is the actual thruth about these cards/gpus ? The nvidia spec says: "standard connectors" single link ? https://www.geforce.com/hardware/des...specifications WTF does that mean ? Is that the actual connector on the back of the reference card ? Or is the GPU itself nerfed to single link connector interface ?!?!? What if graphics card manufacturer replaces standard single link with dual link ? Will the dual link interface/connector actually work ?!?!?!?! So which spec is ultimately correct ?!?!?!?! I will probably use this for a while for 1280x1024 gaming, which it should be fine for that. Though this confusion about possible dvi-d dual link support is fricking annoying. Cause I have to choose between E-VGA and ASUS. If one of these cards is actually dual-link dvi-d then it would be the better choice... Though I am not sure if the E-VGA passive heatsink is as good as the ASUS passive heatsink. Some benchmark/testing of these heatsinks would be cool. Details... Bye for now, Skybuck. |
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Two different specs for same model number, what's going on here?
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Two different specs for same E-VGA GT 1030 low profile, passive card: https://s.eet.eu/icmedia/mmo_3725334..._1431_5986.pdf vs https://www.evga.com/Products/Specs/...F-07065ACF1BF1 First one states "dual-link dvi" Second one "official" one states "single-link dvi" Plus some other features are different. So what is going on here ? This is the spec from the chip maker (Nvidia) https://www.geforce.com/hardware/des...specifications DP 1.42 HDMI 2.0b (HDCP 2.2) Single Link-DVI PCIe 3.0 ×4 (wikipedia) And it means there are three card designs possible, times two kinds of RAM. A card may only have two connectors on the faceplate (but I don't have proof at the engineering level, only based on the marketplace). ******* https://www.nvidia.com/en-us/geforce...orce-gtx-1050/ DP 1.43 HDMI 2.0b (HDCP 2.2) Dual Link-DVI === the 1050 has dual link PCIe 3.0 ×16 (wikipedia) Supplementary Power Connectors None I can't find any details on number of connectors. The previous card observations are based on seeing a "lack of creativity" on the 1030 faceplates. Obviously shaving a single connector off the faceplate, saves them millions of dollars /s There is a Gigabyte 1050 card with five connectors, but only four can be used at the same time. http://forum.gigabyte.us/thread/2277...al-gaming-1050 3 HDMI ports, DP and one DVI It suggests that perhaps, one DVI shares with one HDMI. Multi-view = 4 And that's a 1050Ti card with 4GB of RAM and a 112 bit wide video memory. https://www.gigabyte.com/us/Graphics...105TWF2-4GD#sp Dual-link DVI-D *1 HDMI-2.0b *3 (Max Resolution: 4096x2160 @60 Hz) Display Port-1.4 *1 (Max Resolution: 7680x4320 @60 Hz) Multi-view 4 So Gigabyte gives away more of the NVidia documentation. The Multi-view number is important for understanding how many connectors can be used simultaneously. Nvidia Multiview, as far as I know, is a rough equivalent to AMD Eyefinity, which spans three monitors across, in up to two groups, for a max of six monitors on the dual logical heads on one GPU. If we had the NVidia internal document, it might show +------+------+------+ +------+ | Mon1 Mon2 Mon3 | | Mon4 | +------+------+------+ +------+ as how that Multi-view plays out. It's possible a Quadro card would be needed, if you wanted better connector sets (maybe you could get a faceplate with nothing but miniDP on it). ******* And you can see here, some poor schmuck tried to connect a Dual Link monitor to the 1030, and ended up with a disappointing choice of resolution for the monitor. So it's Single Link DVI. Running 2560x1440 is about as far as Dual Link DVI would go if it was available. https://forums.geforce.com/default/t...-from-gt-1030/ And "where there is a will, there is a way". Hardware engineer commentator to the rescue :-) Of course, if you string enough dongles together, it would be better to buy a different video card. https://superuser.com/questions/3320...bout-the-price Paul |
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