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Question posted by sunman2 on December 10th, 2012

2560 Resolution

I have a Radeon 7870 and the Asus PB278Q. Yet my screen resolution cannot go higher than 1920 x 1080 usiung the HDMI cable. How can I increase the resolution to the maximum?

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Answer #1: Posted by cljeffrey on December 18th, 2012 11:16 AM

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Looks like HDMI is only capable up to 1080P. If you want to access the 2560 resolution, you will have to connect with the DVI cable.

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