go look at the small and medium business section in Dell's online store, the U2312HM is priced at RM649 and i found sellers in the garage sales section that can also give such competitive pricing

for the U2412M, you can use this coupon (JFDLCN701KHK0S) to get a further RM150 discount (but i think the code is expiring soon)

not really sure whats the problem, but i have read ppl facing problems with DP->HDMI / DP->DVI converters b4 and most of them are pointing the finger at AMD as a driver issue. but could be wrong here.

This post has been edited by Raki: Sep 6 2011, 05:02 AM

you got ur tech wrong here.

after reading over ur post. I see that what you have there is a DP to HDMI cable (its doesn't work the other way around)

Here a quote from DP official website


Simply put, HDMI output can is not compatible to handle any DP output. (a totally different technology)

How different you might ask,
quote from wikipedia


So whats the point of the passive and active converter?
If you still haven't realise after reading the quote from DisplayPort official website,

A DisplayPort++ (output from GC not input DP on monitor as it only handle data packets and does not convert the signal. thats ur GC's job) supports 2 modes: The native packetized data transmission mode and a dual-mode that generates transition minimized differential signalling (TMDS) and clock for single-link DVI/HDMI signalling with an external simple line-level conversion dongle to properly convert to the respective DVI or HDMI standard.

The active converters are needed when you need a dual-link DVI (DP can only provide single link DVI) or analog VGA because of the perform active conversion. Because the DP output port from the GC will be transmitting in data packets and the converter does all the conversation to RGB.
While passive converters rely on the GC to transmit RGB first to work properly.

So why are there active DP to DVI-D(single link) adapters? since only dual link needs active conversations.
Answer: Eyefinity

As passive works at switching DP to DVI (single link) or HDMI, but only if the other two sets of TMDS are not being used on each graphic card unit, it can also be used to drive a VGA monitor, but once again, as long as the other two RAMDACs are not being used.

Why is that so?
Remember when I say DP is "self-clocking rather than clock signal provided by the GC". Thats the reason.

Why?
Because each GC can provide 2 clock signals and when DP goes into dual port mode with passive adapters, it does not use DP's embedded clock but uses one of the GC's. Hence why active adapters are used in eyefinity scenerios.

Conclusion,
As far as I know, there no such thing a HDMI to DP adapter (maybe I'm wrong) since both transmissions are different.
Passive adapters can be use when no more than 2 monitors are connected to 1 single GC
Active adapters must be use when more than 2 of any passive adapters or dvi or hdmi is used on one single GC or u need to convert from DP to dual link DVI or VGA


DVI to anything else except DP since U2311H 's DVI port does support HDCP input

This post has been edited by Raki: Sep 7 2011, 11:41 AM

U2311H has been remove from Dell's website

What bad reviews are you talking about? Most of the complaints I see are the nagging argument of over anti-glare coating that caused so much heated debate over the all of LG and its OEM's IPS monitors