HD Monitor & Video Card

[BPoese]

I'm "new" to building your own computer so lots of questions here. My son built his own computer with Christmas money this year. He has a GeForce GTX 285 video card. He also bought a Dell HD 22" monitor. According to the video card material, he should have gotten a DVI to HDMI adapter, which we could not find. I was told by one sells person that a DVI cable will provide HDMI to his monitor and you don't need the adapter. I checked his monitor and it has only DVI connections on it, so this sounds correct. (His video board has 2 DVI outputs, again making this sound correct.) So I am assuming that DVI cables can carry HDMI signal and he will get the HDMI resolution on his monitor? Is that correct or am I so confused that I am asking all the wrong questions?
Thanks
Bruce

[cmchamp]

He'll be fine.
HDMI is an interface protocol or specification, not a resolution, such as VGA, XGA, WXGA, 802.11, 1394a, ANSI, SAE, Display Port, SATA, SCSI, etc.
C.

[petereit]

Yep. Just connect the video card to the monitor with a standard DVI cable. DVI is well-capable of HD video resolution.

[BPoese]

Thanks guys for the info. That is what I love about this site. So many times I have gone on other message boards and have been blasted, insulted, and humiliated for asking "dumb" questions. This is a nice safe place to ask about things I don't understand. Thanks again!
Bruce

[petereit]

Glad to help! And in the spirit of one of my favorite Demotivators posters, my stats say that I've been idiotically inquisitive here at churchmedia.net since January 25th, 2007.

[Dedmunds159]

HDMI and DVI are both capable of way above 1080P resolutions.
You would only need to convert it to HDMI if you wanted to hook it up to a newer flat screen TV. Then you can get a adapter for dvi to hdmi, or you can get a cable with dvi on one end and hdmi on the other end. But you are more than fine with your DVI cable now.