Mini HDMI ports work just like standard HDMI ports, but may require a mini HDMI to HDMI cable.
Some models of the new GeForce 400 series GPUs include a mini HDMI port. If your graphics card has a native HDMI port, then you can use a standard HDMI male to HDMI male cable sold at any electronics store or online. The image above shows two connection types we can use to connect your PC to an HDMI port on a HDTV. Identifying the connections on your graphics card:įirst of all, you need to identify which connections are available on your graphics card.
For this guide, we will focus on connecting a graphics card to an HDMI port on your HDTV since newer HDTVs are shipping with additional HDMI ports while older legacy connections are going away. HDTVs which have shipped over the past few years have included several types of video inputs including composite, SVIDEO, component, VGA and HDMI. With this guide, we will show you the basics of connecting a PC featuring an NVIDIA based graphics card to an HDTV. PCs offer many more video options and it can sometimes feel overwhelming. Connecting a PC to an HDTV is a bit more complicated than connecting for example a DVD player or VCR.
