C90s and 30 inch Monitors over HDMI?

does the c90s support a connection with a 30 inch monitor with 2560x1600 native resolution over HDMI?

 

I found this on the net.

The Dell 3007WFP and Hewlett Packard LP3065 30" LCD monitors require a graphics card with a dual-link DVI port to drive the ultra high native resolution of 2560x1600 which these monitors support. With the current family of NVIDIA Geforce 8 & 7 series HDCP capable GPU's, playback of HDCP content is limited to single-link DVI connection only. HDCP is disabled over a dual-link DVI connection. The highest resolution the Dell 30" 3007WFP supports in single-link DVI mode is 1280x800 and therefore this is the highest resolution which HDCP playback is supported in single-link DVI mode on current Geforce 8 &7 series HDCP capable GPU's. On other 3rd party displays with a native resolutions of 1920x1200 and below, the graphics card interfaces with the monitor over a single-link DVI connection. In this case, playback of content protected Blu-Ray and HD-DVD movies is possible on HDCP capable Geforce 8& 7 series GPU's.


I know it's for DVI but does HDMI supports higher than 1440p?

 

Thanks for your reply JCMS,

Well, but i just did a little more research...and according to this:

http://forum.notebookreview.com/showthread.php?t=130512 which states that the C90s would be the first to support HDMI v1.3

according to this
http://forum.notebookreview.com/showthread.php?t=130512

and according to this:
http://www.hdmi.org/download/guidelines/2007_10HDMI_Trademark_FAQs_pdf.pdf

So, it seems that all we need to connect our C90s to a 2560x1600 30" monitor is a high speed hdmi cable, because C90s hdmi has the 1.3 specification.

At this time i only wish to say that im really glad i decided to bought this notebook

 

does anyone know why the 08 30" dell cost 800 more than the 07 model?

 

Because its the 08 model new stuff always cost more. There may be a few small changes best to google it or look on the dell forums tho, or also my sister forum widescreengamingforum.com

Honestly tho those are a waist of money IMO, id rather have what I have a 37" HD LCD 1920x1080 for a fraction of the cost.

Getting the 30" dell is buying into a world of trouble.

> expensive monitor
> high resolution means you now are obligated to buy top end hardware to run the native res for any halfway decent game (without scaling a lower res, but then whats the point of the higher res?)

A bigger HD TV will give you a great resolution (1920x1080) even more to look at and requires less of a hardware feed to run at native. Also any 1080p stuff will be 1:1 with the screen.

 

Screen area is always valuable, but it depends on what you want it for. I deliberately chose the 24" Dell for home because I game a lot and you get neck strain gaming on a 30"!

Also, driving that king of resolution natively requires a lot of horsepower though.

Still, it's a great res for business working or design applications. I have to say that unless you're sitting a long way from the screen that I would always choose the 30" Dell over a lower resolution TV based panel. The picture quality will be considerably higher on the 30" too.

 

the point of such a big screen is to have a bigger workspace, a lot bigger, for instance, if you need to program, in Java or C++/CLI or C# whatever, imagine what it would be like to see 6 or 7 times more lines of code than what you do actually, you would save more time because you wouldnt have to scroll that much...this is just one example...and im sure that with more space to work you will work better. So i would say that 30" monitors are "work" oriented. Of course to play games, it would be worse, but if graphics card are constantly evolving, then you would have a future proof monitor.

Keith_C said it right..

@einhander i think some of the key features in the new 3008WFP from dell, are a new connection interface, called displayport, but also has support for hdmi, and virtually all other types of video signalling connectors. It has a better color gamut, like 112% of the color spectrum, meaning it has a better color response, whereas in 3007 it had 92%.

I have seen pictures of this 3008WFP baby and altough i admit it is expensive...wich will lead me to probably just wait for the price to go down, it has a really nice design tough one thing is missing in my opinion, PIVOT FEATURE, to enable rotating the full screen 90º CW. it has none...and that's a shame with the provided resolution, but then again, one new question comes up, would ir be ok to replace to supplied arm mount with another one that supported pivot feature? If so, the 3008WFP would be truly a beuty to have.

 

i dont think my 3 8800gtx will have a problem outputting that resolution on the 30".

problem is getting rid of my 28" first.

 

Wanna give it to me as a late xmas gift?

 

lol!

Yes and a 8600m GT has no problem either...looses performance with gaming of course..but handling HD video at that resolution should also be perfectly Ok i think

 

looks like dell has lowered the price on the o7 model. it now cost half as much as the 08 model

2000 vs 1000.

 

You don't need 3 - one cheerfully runs most games I've seen. Crysis excepted of course.

 

I doubt Oblivion with QTP3 and all the stuff 2560x1600 is a bit much on a single 8800GTX I think.

 

Sorry for reviving an old thread, but I was curious about this.

I have the 9600 and an 32" HDTV hooked up through HDMI. 3dMark06 scores are at 6459 with Symantec Endpoint running and the display cloned. They were around 6350 without a cloned display and endpoint turned off.

I figure that since HDMI sends a pure signal for the tv to decode, it must not be using much bandwidth. Either that or 3dmark06 is a little off.

 

There's a difference between a 32" HDTV (up to 1920x1080 at best) and a 30" monitor (up to 2560x1600).