Customer Reviews

Eforcity Black 6 FT / 2 Meter DVI-D M/M Digital /Digital Dual Link Cable for ...

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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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Like others, the very low price for this cable made me suspicious, but it is exactly what it purports to be, a DVI-D digital dual link cable. Quality-wise the cables are as good as any I've seen from major suppliers. I bought two of them to gain the advantage of a digital connection between my PC and LCD monitors rather than use the analog cables supplied by the vendor. Monitors generally only require single link, but dual link works just as well; the extra wiring for the dual link capability just goes unused but for this price, who cares. Delivery was on schedule (actually a day early) to my doorstep by US mail. Note: if you are using these as I did, you may have to do some fiddling around with settings on both your monitor and your PC (i.e., display problems likely have nothing to do with cables). I'm using XP and that was easy enough using "display settings" (plus some tweaking via nVidia's software), but to get the monitor to give up on analog mode and reset itself for digital I had to actually pull the plug on the monitor so the monitor's "plug and play" would do the reset.

Came on time and works great. Now I am able to convert my mac mini with my samsung monitor. Looking forward to doing more business with you.

FINALLY!!!!

This is the proper cable to use for Mac from Monitor DVI-D to Apple Sub-Mini DVI-D adapter.

This cable does not have the 4 annoying pins that the others (DVI-I) have!

My analyst friend tells me that if your monitor comes with VGA and DVI, to use the DVI. My screen Flicker disappeared when he
used this cable with the Apple DVI Sub MINI adapter. (the one without the 4 pins)Apple Mini DisplayPort to DVI Adapter MB570Z/A
the above is the apple/amazon designation for the adapter.

Worked as expected and received on time.
I would have liked some better pictures of the ends of the cable.

I was very happy with the product and the price. If you are looking for something like this it will be hard to get a better price even with the shipping charges.