meltdown117
25 de enero de 2023
The HDMI cable that actually works!
I rarely write reviews. Yet, these days, it's hard to find products that simply do what they're advertised to do. And this cable deserves the 5 star rating and a review for holding true to its advertised description. Note that I have no affiliation with this company nor Amazon, and I was not paid or given anything to write this. The product was paid out of my pocket for my own personal use.I am currently using a 4K 144Hz monitor that's shared between my gaming desktop and work laptop. I simply switch between the monitor inputs depending on what I am doing. The monitor has 2 HDMI 2.1 ports and a single DisplayPort (DP) 1.4. Because the laptop has limited port selection due to its "pickiness" with port recognition, it would occupy the only DP input to the monitor. That leaves me with 2 HDMI 2.1 ports for the gaming desktop. Of course, I wanted to take the full advantage of 4k resolution combined with 144Hz refresh rate, but none of the existing HDMI cables (rated at HDMI 1.x) that I had laying around could handle the sheer amount of data; I have had issues with my screen blinking, glitching out, or even completely lose signal for few seconds during the heat of intense gaming! I knew that mechanically, the old HDMI cables were not damaged, because all of them had no issues in the past attached to my living room PC or gaming consoles with 1080p and 1440p monitors (all at 60Hz refresh rate). I figured that the issue was caused by the "bandwidth bottleneck" from the older cables.Simple solution: get a high-bandwidth cable rated for HDMI 2.1 (which the monitor and GPU are spec'ed to support). It can't get easier than this, right? Well, I was wrong.On Amazon, I found and purchased an HDMI cable that "claimed" to support 4K 120Hz, 8K 60Hz, 48Gbps transfer speed, and what-not. When plugged in, however, that cable had all the same issues (albeit with less frequency) that my old cables suffered from. I have failed to realize that the description of the product did NOT explicitly mention that the cable complied to HDMI 2.1 or that it was certified by the HDMI Licensing Admin. Behold, when I went back on Amazon search, upon closer inspection, I saw that very few of the "high-bandwidth" HDMI cables specifically mention that they comply to HDMI 2.1 standards. And even when they do have those statements, they simply proclaim or advertise to do so, with no certification from any reputable sources! Because of this, those cables may work fine with regular 4K monitors at 60Hz (and hence their 4+ star reviews), with very few people realizing that when pushed to the limits, the cables simply cannot handle the bandwidth.This KabelDirekt HDMI cable, however, simply worked as advertised. No flickering, no glitching, no black screens. Just works - at the full resolution and refresh rate of my monitor. The HDMI app confirms that the product is certified and licensed. The build quality is solid: nice and thick cable, with the gold-plated (as another reviewer pointed out, the plated color is closer to silver, and not the bright golden shown on the product images, but I doubt it will effect the performance since HDMI is purely digital, with no analog signal what-so-ever) male ports fitting snugly to the female ports. And finally, I am a happy customer.Ver másVer menos
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