Review on 🔌 Cable Matters 25 ft/7.5m Ultra HD 8K HDMI Cable with HDR - Compatible with PS5, Xbox Series X/S, RTX3080/3090, RX 6800/6900, Apple TV, and More - High-Speed 48Gbps Connectivity by Elvis Bragg

So far, so good. Got this to replace a cheaper 10ft HDMI 2.1 cable I bought that worked fine for a year. I'm actually very happy that longer cables are now available at a reasonable price. When I first got my 3090, the cheapest 25-foot HDMI 2.1 cable was $80. I'm glad I was able to get an active HDMI cable. My previous HDMI 2.0 cable that I had with my 2080 Tis was 25ft with two Redmere signal boosters. I was looking for a similarly configured 25 foot HDMI 2.1 cable and this cable fills the bill. I don't know exactly how many signal boosters this cable has, there's at least 1, but it's a must when you start pushing the boundaries of bandwidth with cables 10+ feet long for HDMI 2.0 and especially HDMI 2.1. I looked at the cable for a long time before deciding on this one. I've thought about getting an HDMI 2.1 optical cable, it should be more reliable, but I've seen people have issues with it too. In addition, they are very expensive. I chose this cable because I didn't want to spend a small fortune on a cable. If that fails, next time I'll go with an optical cable. I wanted a long cable so my computer can be across the room due to fan noise, it's much quieter the farther away. Lately he's been sitting next to me with a 10 foot cable. This cable is thick. I've had other high performance HDMI cables and they've always been thicker with a thicker screen, that's what you want. This is an active cable, so you will need a micro USB for power. I was a little afraid of it. I used to have active cables, they were always USB cables. Usually when I need a longer HDMI or DisplayPort cable it's for my Rift VR headsets and I use a standalone signal booster that runs between the two cables. They are powered in the same way, but the cables themselves do not require power. So, like I said, I'm a little wary of plugging the power cord into such an expensive TV and also such an expensive graphics card. I have an RTX3090 FTW3. But to minimize the risk as much as possible, I use a good quality USB power adapter and a good quality USB to Micro USB cable to power the cable. I actually have several cable issues. in the past and can't recall any problems with either. It's nice to at least have access to a brand I know. When you buy HDMI cables online, there are an endless number of brands that no one has heard of before, making it very difficult to figure out which cable to buy. So I usually look for a quality brand when I can. One of the best things about this cable is its 2-year warranty. You have to register on their website with your order number to unlock the 2 year guarantee but at least they have it. Most of the other cables you will find here are not guaranteed. So I'm running an RTX 3090 with a cable to the HDMI 2.1 port on my LG C9 OLED with G Sync enabled at 120Hz at 3840 x 2160, with HDR enabled and 12-bit color. I enabled the 12-bit option, does that make a big difference? Not that I can really say, but if I can use it, I will. I can see a difference on Netflix with Dolby Vision content that is essentially the same as 12-bit. I have an HDMI 2.0 receiver that doesn't support the nice sweet HDMI 2.1 features, so I'm streaming HDMI audio from the TV to the receiver with the e-ARC feature. This gives me 7.1 sound on my home cinema receiver. Dolby Atmos and DTS-X also work, but it's a bit blurry at times, I don't know exactly why, so I just run the 7.1 option. So basically everything is perfect, or at least as good as my previous cable when it worked, and this one is 25 feet long and doesn't cost too much. How I found out my old cable was starting to go bad was when it started randomly flashing black on my TV screen. I've seen this before when there was a bad connection to the HDMI port, so I know this is an indication of a problem with your HDMI cable. I briefly thought it might be a problem with my graphics card, but when I monitor my graphics card while gaming, it doesn't show anything out of the ordinary. Clock speeds don't change, performance levels don't change, GPU usage is the same, frame rates and frame times are the same. I think if there was a problem with the game or the hardware itself there would be some sort of indicator in one of those things. While not always accurate, graphics card components or the HDMI connector itself can fail. It actually happened to me once. If you're having a black screen flickering issue, it could indicate a problem with your HDMI cable. I found it a bit odd that after a year of flawless operation it broke down and I haven't really done anything to it from the outside, it has hardly been touched but the electrical connections can fail and HDMI 2.1 requires extremely high bandwidth like when I run it, any minor connection problem will be indicated. Hopefully this lasts a long time and if not hopefully under warranty I'll edit this review if anything changes.