This review is of the 2 meter (6ft) Accell UltraAV B142C-007B cable. I purchased this to daisy-chain 2 monitors using a single Displayport 1.2 out from my Nvidia GTX 680 graphics card. For those of you who don't know what daisy-chaining a monitor means, its basically connecting your primary monitor with a displayport cable to your graphics card display port and connecting another monitor with the 'displayport out' from the primary monitor (if it supports such a feature) to a secondary monitor that has a displayport input. Both the primary monitor and graphics card must support displayport 1.2 technology to allow for the extra bandwidth needed to feed two monitors with high resolution display. The secondary monitor does not have to have a displayport 1.2 input to display maximum resolution.So, my primary monitor is the the Dell U2713H and the secondary monitor is the NEC PA271W. I have been able to use the supplied display port cable that came with my NEC monitor to connect my main (Dell) monitor to my PC, and use a "StarTech" brand displayport (version 1.1) to daisy-chain with my second (NEC) monitor with perfect result. But for the peace of mind of knowing I'm truly getting the full bandwidth of displayport 1.2, I ordered this product to connect my primary display to the PC. Within a few days, I started getting intermittent, random flickers and weird 'snowy' artifacts on my second (NEC) monitor. I have experienced this twice within a 3 day period. Once the random flicker started, it would only go away upon power-cycling the main (Dell) monitor. First I thought it could be caused by a graphics card malfunction, but realized it wouldn't have gone away by simply power-cycling the primary monitor. So I then swithced back to the original NEC cable for my primary connection, and now been using it for a month with absolutely no issues. This leads to believe that the Accell UltraAV B142C-007B has issues transmitting high bandwidth signal required for daisy-chaining 2 monitors. Your result may vary, but I would not bank on this product.
Buy Accell UltraAV B142C-010B DisplayPort to DisplayPort 1.2 Cable with Latches (10 Feet / 3m) Now
This DisplayPort to Displayport 1.2 cable works like a charme. Just plug it in and it does what it should delivering a sharp picture.I have felt good and bad cables before and seems to be a really good quality cable. I am using it with a Dell 24" monitor and it works just as expected.So if this is what you need then the cable is great. It was a bit hard to find even searching on here. Make sure you check your monitor and video card to make sure you're getting the right one.
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