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    Displayport, should we worry about it yet?

    With a new display interface out called displayport (link to news), should we worry about it making any monitor we buy now redundant next year, as they don't have the new better connection? Or will it only be used for super high res (2560 x 1600) and extra coulours (10bit colour depth – 1.07 billion colours) on monitors that aren't out yet Samsung 30in LCD First With DisplayPort and graphics cards will have DVI for years yet to support our old monitors or maybe use displayport-DVI converters? It makes me just a little bit less confident about buying a monitor just now.
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    It's really the perennial problem with buying any technology - there's always something bigger/better/faster around the corner. You can spend the rest of your life waiting, my mantra is to buy the best you can afford at the time. I can't see support for DVI frittering out for a good while yet and, as you say, there are adapters for just about everything now.. I wouldn't worry too much, tbh but that's just my tuppence worth (some of the more knowlegeable heads in here may have other ideas/views.)

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    I have in the past suscribed to the theory that if you always worry about what might be coming in the near future making what you buy now obsolete, then you would never buy anything new. So, you might as buy the best you can afford at the time by that theory. However, I did buy a new CPU and motherboard just 4 months before Core 2 was released and was slightly dismayed by my PC becoming suddenly alot less awesome by comparison and the price of the CPU I bought dropping by half or more overnight as a result. That said I'm still happy with my CPU. With some overclocking I've not found any games I've played to be CPU limited so far, with the exception of Supreme Commander, but that's a very CPU heavy game.

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    CPU and Memory technology is being advanced every few months. There is always a newer faster more advanced, more efficiant device to use in your computer so when it comes to things like that; its guaranteed that whatever you buy will only be top of the range for a short period.
    Technology that surrounds monitors is quite different in that usually a monitor will last through 3,4,5.... as many builds as possible. People in genral are in no rush to upgrade a monitor that is still perfectly good so i imagine a new connection type will take much longer to really hold its ground.

    DEFINATELY dont worry about connectors! I mean even now you can still connect up old VGA monitors. Even if thre isnt a way to convert the new DisplayPort connectors to DVI i would have thought graphics cards will have 1DVI and 1Displayport adaptor for a very long time before DVI is phased out.

    As far as waiting or just buying now.... If this really interests you then keep your money and wait. What i do with things is wait for the new technology, see if its worth it then if its not i just buy the older one which is now much cheaper. Im hoping to completely miss out DDR2 and skip stright on to 3
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    Some good points there thanks.

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    No problemo... i know what its like when ur thinking of buying something and u start researching. You read abut all the new things that areon the way and all the paranoia sets in

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    Yeah exactly

    I'm going to go for the samsung 275t I think.

    I'm probably going to skip DDR2 and jump from DDR to DDR3 as well, after the monitor I'll be saving for the next graphics card or mobo/ram/cpu and quad core/ddr3 will make sense by then.

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    good call

    http://forums.hexus.net/showthread.php?t=114472

    http://www.hexus.net/content/item.php?item=9432

    Might be of interest if your an AMD man like myself would stick witht hat gfx tbh... unless the dx10 games only work on vista with dx10 cards, which i have heard is the case. I have also heard the contrary though and it doesnt make sense from a business POV so...
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    Re: Displayport, should we worry about it yet?

    Quote Originally Posted by Biscuit View Post
    Even if thre isnt a way to convert the new DisplayPort connectors to DVI i would have thought graphics cards will have 1DVI and 1Displayport adaptor for a very long time before DVI is phased out.
    I would be very suprised if this isn't true.

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    Re: Displayport, should we worry about it yet?

    Especially when you take into account that DVI <-> HDMI convertors are widely available and used.

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    Re: Displayport, should we worry about it yet?

    Well I went ahead and bought that sceen and very nice it is too.
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