Dell 3007 HDMI

[shoopdawoopa]

I have a two year old Dell 3007 and I just got a new Pioneer receiver that I was going to connect to my computer for sound. However I was wondering if there was a way for me to connect the receiver so I can play xbox and stuff on my monitor. The 3007 only has a DVI-D so I was wondering if I could to DVI-D on monitor and HDMI to the receiver and then HDMI to DVI-D to graphics card.
Would that work?

[Torphoto]

I know you can go dvi to hdmi to the receiver but for sound you'll probably have to go spdif or analogue out unless you have hdmi audio. From the Receiver to monitor hdmi to dvi should work fine. Try just getting the dvi to hdmi ( one ) cable and test from receiver to monitor first as some monitors are picky with their inputs or can't rescale correctly with non computer inputs ( I don't have the dell to say ) but I run my samsung hdmi to dvi connected to my yamaha receiver and then the playstation gets to display on it :D .

once you know the monitor will work with the receiver hdmi to dvi then your set, get another cable for the computer, the xbox is good to go as it is to the receiver regardless.

[shoopdawoopa]

Im using a digital optical cable for audio
Also you know that the 3007 is DVI-D only right?

[Torphoto]

I knew the 3007 has dvi but thought it also had a old vga, checking it now it only has dvi-d as you said, still a hdmi to dvi-d cable should work to see if the monitor will like the signal from the receiver, also dvi-d to hdmi adapters are cheap and come in handy to connect pc's to hdtvs, you can try that with a regular hdmi cable and see.

[Torphoto]

Remember that the 3007 only has a single input for a reason because it only operates at two resolutions: 1280x800 or 2560x1600.
I'm not sure it's the best choice for running the 360 since 2560x1600 will probably strain it too much and 1280x800 will look kinda low res.

wait with nothing between?

[Xcel]

That is correct, because the 3007 doesn't have a scaler it only supports two resolutions 1280*800 and 2560*1600. It can't display any other signal, it has to be either of those two.

The reason it can display any resolution when hooked up to a PC is because the PC is handling all the scaling. So it won't work unless your receiver can scale video to those resolutions.

[Torphoto]

Ah well then he's SOL with the xbox or receiver.

[AndrewZorn]

That is correct, because the 3007 doesn't have a scaler it only supports two resolutions 1280*800 and 2560*1600. It can't display any other signal, it has to be either of those two.

The reason it can display any resolution when hooked up to a PC is because the PC is handling all the scaling. So it won't work unless your receiver can scale video to those resolutions.
wow that is awful
i mean, even for PC use, what happens when you are installing an OS, or playing a game at a lower res?
well the dell is out of the running

the 2405fpw wouldnt scale component input right, 16:9 was fullscreened to 16:10. why wont they learn?

[shoopdawoopa]

Well what 30" 2560x1600 monitor should I get that will scale?

[Xcel]

wow that is awful
i mean, even for PC use, what happens when you are installing an OS, or playing a game at a lower res?
well the dell is out of the running


You won't notice anything when hooked up to a computer. Every resolution works, bios and everything since the graphics card does all the scaling automatically. You might render at 1920*1200 but it's then scaled to the native resolution by the graphics card instead of the monitor itself doing the scaling.


Well what 30" 2560x1600 monitor should I get that will scale?

There are probably more but at least Dell 3008Wfp & Gateway xhd3000 have scalers.

[mikeyakame]

Dell 3008WFP scaler works great, and input lag is very minimal at best. I've never really noticed it personally.