Is Your Monitor Ghosting?

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Is Your Monitor Ghosting?

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It may not be the monitor, it may be the cable. See the picture below. El Cheapo Belkin Cable vs a High Quality Monoprice VGA Cable. No Ghosting, Image is Crystal Clear now. Notice the difference in the Cables. White is the Belkin, Black is the 6$ Monoprice Gold Coated Ferrite Ended Cable. Just an FYI
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i use a no name, gold plated dvi cable my dad "borrowed" from work. its pretty thick, so im not concerned. i have a 2ms response time monitor to, so have an extremly crisp clear image. whats the point of having a ferrite core on a moniter cable though?
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No idea other than all the Lenevo Monitors we get in work have them, and those images are crystal clear.
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DVI is the way to go for LCD monitors, no worries about cable quality.
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I have a simple, generic brand DVI cable, and it works fine. It is kind of thick, though. Perhaps the cable that broke simply had a loose connection. As for the shielding, the more the better. 6 dollars is well woth it for a good picture.

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Zelig wrote:DVI is the way to go for LCD monitors, no worries about cable quality.
Not many including my laptop have DVI Connects, just VGA
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martini161 wrote:i use a no name, gold plated dvi cable my dad "borrowed" from work. its pretty thick, so im not concerned. i have a 2ms response time monitor to, so have an extremly crisp clear image. whats the point of having a ferrite core on a moniter cable though?
Don't forget that with a digital signal, cable quality does not matter, as long as both ends are connected! (Yeah those 100$+ "high quality" Monster cables are a rip off)
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I have a Samsung 970P,it was pretty expensive back in the days and it is ghosting a lot during scroll
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Quick, let's steal matt's fingerprints off that image and plant them all over some crimescene :mrgreen:

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DMB2000uk wrote:Quick, let's steal matt's fingerprints off that image and plant them all over some crimescene :mrgreen:

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glad to see i wasnt the only one thinking that :P
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If mythbusters has taught us anything, its damn hard to recreate a finger print that would can fool a fingerprint reader. I'm sure a forensic expert would have much easier time saying this was fake, and this thread would hurt your credibility as well, so :owned:
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maybe were both on elite proxies :mrgreen:
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