Question 1

What is the advantage of buying a more expensive, electronic DVI splitter or DA to one of these passive splitters if you want to feed two monitors?

Accepted Answer

This isn't a DVI splitter.  It's a proprietary adapter cable that converts the card output (DMS59 - wikipedia/wiki/DMS-59) into dual DVI (there are DMS59 to VGA also).  This type of output occurs across a wide range of bundled PC solutions where card space is a premium as it allows dual-video out with a half-height card (and they tend to be fairly weak cheap solutions with passive cooling).  If you intend to purchase a computer bundled with such a video output be sure to verify its physical dimensions if you intend to swap out the card (make sure the case has room for a full-height alternative) or be prepared to buy a this adapter cable too.  I've yet to see the seller include the cable.

Question 2

After reading earlier posts and reviewing the pictures, it looks as if the ‘GIGABYTE GeForce GTX 970 4GB XTREME GAMING OC EDITION’ doesn’t have a DMS-59 jack with its 59 pins, it looks more like a ‘DVI-I Dual Link’ jack.  Am I correct?  The dual monitor adapter would be completely different if that’s the case.

Accepted Answer

I Have the evga ftw edition 970. It has 2 dvi ports and not the dms-59

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