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11 of 11 found the following review helpful:
 Great quality cable Jan 26, 2008
By A. McCullough
Don't let the cheap price put you off. It's a sturdy, very well-constructed cable, gold-plated contacts, and works excellently. I was running my brand-new LCD monitor with an analog vga cable (and an extender, because the cable I had wasn't long enough) and was seeing some ghosting with that cable setup - this two-meter cable is plenty long enough to use without the extender and works fine with a Radeon 9000 video card on its DVI port. Ghosting is gone, image is sharp - great cable for an unbelievable price.
6 of 6 found the following review helpful:
Wow, was I missing alot. Jun 29, 2008
By L. Shuler
Didn't know how much I was missing till I used the dual DVI outputs on my video card and the dual inputs (HD15 and DVI) on my LCD. I could switch back and forth between the two. Set-up a short looping video and watched it a few dozen times to see the difference. It was more than enough to justify the extra expense (small) of buying this cable.
Now, on to the cable. It went into the connector smooth and the thumbscrews were easy enough to turn. Cable was thick and seemed adequately shielded. Gold coating looked evenly applied. No issues at all.
8 of 9 found the following review helpful:
Very good cable May 08, 2007
By ice breakers
This is a very high quality cable. It has all the right materials, specifically high-performance polypropylene foam dielectric on the signal lines. The connectors are large and solidly molded.
1 of 1 found the following review helpful:
Cheap and functional DVI cable Jan 16, 2011
By Vitor Menezes
Cable is thick--I like this because it gives me confidence that it won't break accidentally. I get excellent color and sharpness at 1920x1080 on my 24" monitor--it's definitely a noticeable improvement over VGA at the same resolution, even if all I can say is that the image just looks clearer. From what I can tell, it's fastened sturdily onto both my PC and the monitor. Also, the cable I received is verifiably dual-link, as advertised.
In response to some of the negative reviews:
First off, I'll note that I am using the DVI out on an nVidia GTX 460 and the DVI in on a 1080p HD monitor. Barring a faulty cable, direct connections like this seem to work beautifully.
Regarding coupling it with a DisplayPort adapter for Macbooks, you're best off looking elsewhere--there are plenty of cables around this price range, and surely one of them will function well with the adapter. Whether or not this is an issue with the cable or the adapter, however, seems up in the air, as DisplayPort and DVI are extremely different in how they operate, and aren't compatible the same way HDMI and DVI are.
Additionally, from what I can see, reviews identifying artifact issues (flicker, color artifacts, etc.) at higher resolutions don't seem to address that it could be a driver issue. I have experienced this myself with my laptop (nVidia 8200M) at 1920x1080 over VGA, and it was provably a driver problem, so it seems perfectly plausible that similar issues with DVI exist.
All in all, if you're planning to use this on a PC, it looks like you'll be golden so long as you have native DVI ports (or, I'll hazard to say, an HDMI adapter since the two are compatible electrically) and up-to-date drivers.
1 of 1 found the following review helpful:
 Quality is unpredictable - be careful! Jul 07, 2010
By Andy
I rarely write reviews on Amazon, but I had to let other Amazon customers know about the poor quality of this DVI cable. I own a macbook pro and use the mini-display port adapter to connect my macbook pro to my 22" LCD monitor. Somehow, this Eforcity cable just NEVER worked. It produced static, poor images, and sometimes lost connection completely.
I tried everything else (I bought a new adapter, tried different image resolutions and refresh rates) before I just sucked it up and bought a brand name cable at Best Buy. It now works perfectly.
Perhaps other customers have different output strengths (video cards in PC's) or just different monitors, but I would check the price difference between this and your brand name DVI cable at your local BB before taking the risk. Shipping and the hassle just might not be worth the couple of bucks you save from ordering here. If I were to have done it again, I would've just spent the extra bucks and got it at a local store.
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