“Please help me! Is this what I need? So I'm on an alienware 14 laptop, and it only has a HDMI port. I just bought a BenQ xl2411z monitor so I could run 120 hz. Turns out through HDMI you can only go as high as 60 hz. I did some research and purchased a high speed hdmi cable, it said I would be possible to run up to 600hz (or whatever your monitor went up to, as long as it wasn't higher then 600hz. So I tried it, I could run 120hz BUT in a low resolution (not even hd, it was 1024,768). I want a minimum of 1280x720 with anything higher then 60hz. If I use this chord to connect to my laptop, will I be able to run 120hz? Please help me!”
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Go ahead and purchase a new Monitor, you going to in the near future anyway. Use your old monitor on the device it was connected to in the past and move forward, The new monitors are very reasonable in price now days
Sorry, there was a problem. Please try again later.I really don't think so. This adapter has a smaller bandwidth than HDMI, as VGA was never intended to run high resolutions at high refresh rates. You MIGHT find different results trying different cables (as I did just trying to get Apple TV to work through this on a VGA projector), but the limitation is most likely with your hardware on your laptop. I can't find any hard numbers from Dell, but it wouldn't surprise me if it can't handle the bandwidth to do 120Hz at the resolutions you want. Is there an actual reason why 60Hz can't work for you? I am not trying to be snide, I know from experience that I get frustrated when something says it can do something and then after I sink a bunch of time and money into it I find it really can't! I realize the refresh rates are important - especially in games - but refresh rates on paper and the actual way a product looks don't always compare well. Can you take your laptop into your local Best Buy and hook it up to a 120Hz screen there and try some of their cables they have laying around? Maybe one of the combinations will work better. The store in my town is pretty good about wanting to make sure things work for the customers and they usually go out of their way to help as much as they can. Good luck, hope you find a combination that works.
Sorry, there was a problem. Please try again later.This switch is capable of 120hz.
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