【Written on the front】
God said there would be light, and then there was "light pollution." A few years ago, the computer DIY play light mainly relied on light strips and fans, and the heatsink, graphics card, and motherboard were also added, and then memory sticks, solid-state drives, and power supplies were also added. Put it this way, the whole chassis, except for the CPU, is full of RGB lights everywhere. The host computer is finished, it is the turn of the peripherals, keyboard, mouse bear the brunt, followed by headphones, mouse pads, cable clippers, then the monitor, microphone, and finally even the computer desk, e-sports chair also joined.
Good fellow, dare to feel that this "light pollution" has filled the study, so where can you play with the lights? forehead...... That's just the leftover wire. Well, today I will share with you the new member of this PC play light: FIBBR optical fiber luminous DP1.4 video line, the cable is equipped with RGB colorful breathing lights, 32.4Gbps bandwidth, 8K@60Hz, 4K@144Hz refresh rate, the use of Changfei special anti-bending fiber. FIBBR optical fiber luminous DP1.4 video line has 1.5 meters, 2 meters, 3 meters, 5 meters four versions, the price is 888 yuan, 918 yuan, 988 yuan, 1088 yuan, the price gap is not very large. What I share with you this time is the 5-meter version, which is more than three times the length of the 1.5-meter version, and the price is more than 20% more expensive. Of course, the wire rod is still better to buy on demand, and it is not necessarily suitable for yourself to buy for a long time.
【Packaging Accessories】
FIBBR optical fiber light DP1.4 video line adopts gift box packaging, the front is the FIBBR LOGO, there is a color Y shape opening in the middle, and the three-way page design.
On the back is the basic product information introduction and nameplate label, FIBBR belongs to Wuhan Changxinsheng, and Changxinsheng is formed by Wuhan Changfei and Taiwan VIA. Wuhan Changfei everyone should be more familiar with China's production of optical fiber and cable leading enterprises, with a national key optical fiber laboratory.
After opening the package, the opening page shows that the fiber optic cable and connector are fixed inside the hard sponge, equipped with magic cable ties for easy storage of the wire, and the connector is equipped with a dust cap when the connector is shipped.
【Appearance details】
Since the propagation direction of light in the fiber optic line is unidirectional, the FIBBR optical fiber light emitting DP1.4 video cable connector is divided into Plug No. 1 and Plug No. 2, and Plug No. 1 is SOURCE, which represents the video source and is used to plug computers, game consoles and other equipment.
Plug No. 2 is DISPLAY, which represents video display and is used to plug in monitors, displays, projectors and other devices. The joints are plated with gold, and the exterior is made of stainless steel, which is bright and textured.
DP1.4 interface, gold plating treatment, L shape, anti-stupid design. FIBBR optical fiber illuminated DP1.4 video cable with a bandwidth speed of up to 32.4 Gbps (HBR3) and supports 8K@60Hz, 4K@144Hz.
FIBBR optical fiber light emitting DP1.4 video cable cable adopts flat treatment, and the thickness is only 3mm, which is convenient for wall routing. The middle of the cable is made of black material, and on both sides are transparent fiber optic strips.
FIBBR optical fiber light emitting DP1.4 video line supports RGB color, and can currently achieve red, green, blue, yellow, blue, purple and white 7 colors. The wire is made of Long Fly BendRobust special anti-bending fiber, which can withstand 180 degree bending, compared with the copper core material, it has the characteristics of strong anti-electromagnetic interference ability and long-term transmission signal stability.
The plug is equipped with intelligent connection indicators on both sides, the green flash indicates the connection, and the blue solid light represents the successful connection, and the cable operation is monitored in real time.
In the case of indoor lights, you can see that the brightness of the light strip is still quite soft, and the luminescence is uniform.
【Lighting Display】
The following will show you the light effect of the FIBBR optical fiber luminous DP1.4 video line, turn off the indoor lights, you can see that the light is still very mild, not so dazzling.
The strip is cached gradient, from purple on the left to blue in the middle, to cyan on the right, and then to the last green, the transition is still quite natural.
This is the effect of lighting when the display is hung on, and the overall blue is slightly brighter than when the gradient is changed.
Since the cable is 5 meters long, it is too late to route the wire for the time being, so I will use it as an atmosphere light behind the monitor for the time being. When you're ready to go, buy some wall spikes, walk around the wall behind the monitor a few times, and the effect will come out. If you don't want to take too many lines, you can buy the 1.5-meter version directly, and you can save 200 yuan.
【Talk about DP】
DisplayPort (DP) is a digital video interface standard developed by a consortium of PC and chip manufacturers and standardized by the Video Electronics Standards Association (VESA). The interface is certified- and royalty-free (which is important), and is mainly used for connecting video sources to devices such as displays, and also supports carrying audio, USB, and other forms of data.
At present, the DP interfaces on the market mainly include DP1.2, DP1.2a, DP1.3, DP1.4, DP2.0, the transmission bandwidth is getting higher and higher, and the output performance is getting stronger and stronger. For example, the latest DP2.0, the transmission bandwidth is 2.5 times that of DP1.4, 1.6 times that of HDMI 2.1, and can output 16K@60Hz (DSC), 10K@60Hz lossless, 4K@240Hz screens on a single screen, supporting dual screen 4K@144Hz lossless. Of course, for general home use, DP1.4 is enough, when playing games, if you want to achieve 4K@144Hz is still quite budgetary, and the requirements for graphics cards and monitors are quite high.
FiBBR optical fiber light emitting DP1.4 video cable is in accordance with the DP Association specification, the plug adopts a 20mm width limit, and can be inserted into multiple DP interfaces side by side at the same time. It has little impact on the average family, but it is still necessary for multi-screen users.
Bought a DP1.4 video cable, how to judge the computer, monitor has been running in DP1.4. The A card is viewed directly in the drive's display options, while the N card is viewed in the Advanced/General/Monitor 1 of the GPU_Z, which looks at the connection rate (current) and lanes-current. If both are 8.1Gbps, it represents DP1.4, and if both are 5.4Gbps, it represents DP1.2. It can be simply converted, 8.1Gbps×4 = 32.4 Gbps, 5.4Gbps×4 = 21.6 Gbps, so the above figure is DP1.4 on the left and DP1.2 on the right. Interested partners can download a GPU_Z to check it out, do not buy a bunch of DP1.4 equipment cables, the result is still running in DP1.2.
My graphics card and cable support DP1.4, but the monitor is DP1.2, so the bucket effect can only run on DP1.2.
Although it runs on the DP1.2, it can still meet the performance of my ZAUIE XL2546 esports monitor, and it can achieve 1080P@240Hz.
ZOWIE XL2546 is a monitor that mainly plays FPS e-sports games, the resolution is not high, the color is average, but the refresh rate and response speed are still quite powerful, the upgraded XL2546K, the response speed is increased from 1ms to 0.5ms. Playing competitive, quick response is still quite necessary.
I play these three PC games, Diablo 3 (RPG), CSGO (FPS), and Overwatch (FPS+MOBA). Diablo 3 mainly has nothing to do, brush the map to pass the time, the game is free to receive, the game is not kryptonite.
As can be seen in the video settings, the game resolution can be set to 1920×1080 (240Hz), but the maximum number of foreground frames and the maximum number of background frames can only be set to 200.
Overwatch is one of the few games I spent money to buy, the national service to play the package 98 yuan to start, the later did not spend money to smoke equipment. It's also boring to play with, the technique is too poor, and yes, I'm the legendary pig teammate. When I first bought this game, I was mainly attracted to the game graphics style and cute and cool heroes, and it turned out that playing it was completely different from the regular FPS first-person shooter, which was a test of coordination and tactics.
In the game options, the video options/resolution can also be set to 1920×1080 (240Hz), but it seems that my computer configuration is average, and the frame rate cannot run so high.
The most played is CSGO, from the first day of the national service to start playing, now there are five years. CS played longer, and began to play in college in 2012, first playing LAN in internet cafes, then playing campus nets, and finally playing more on the Haofang platform.
Another GIF, it can be seen that the FIBBR optical fiber light DP1.4 video line light is still quite soft, although it is a magic gradient, but the gradient speed is very slow, when playing the game, it will not affect the game experience because of the glare. In order to show the effect of the light bar, I did not turn on the study top light, so the screen is very bright, it is recommended that you try to turn on the room light when playing games at night, the eyes will not be so hard.
【Write at the end】
The article is written here, some people will ask, why don't you test the picture quality, compare the copper core DP line. In fact, the display comes with a copper core DP line, the reason why I did not test, mainly because in the short-distance video transmission, optical fiber and copper core is actually not much difference, as long as it is a large brand quality reliable products, can meet the needs.
The main advantage of optical fiber cable is still long-distance transmission, optical signal transmission, signal transmission attenuation is very low, anti-electromagnetic interference ability is also strong, so many exhibitions, conference halls and other equipment often use optical fiber cable, long-distance communication transmission between countries also use optical cables, such as submarine optical cables. The copper core cable is because of its own impedance, the signal is easy to attenuate and distort when transmitting over a long distance of more than 20 meters, and the anti-electromagnetic interference ability is not as strong as the optical fiber cable.
The difference between the two is quite large, but this is based on the premise of long-distance transmission, if the short-distance transmission, such as two or three meters of distance, how the difference is not so large. There are exceptions to everything, if you live in a large villa of several hundred square meters, you want to form a whole floor video, but you can consider the optical fiber line. If you don't need lights, FIBBR's Flash144 series can be considered, the same is 5 meters as long as 488 yuan, 600 yuan cheaper than the luminous version, 20 meters is only 938 yuan.
Of course, if you are a "light pollution" enthusiast, and you need DP1.4 wire, you really don't have to choose, search the major platforms, and really do this one. Finally, for the FIBBR optical fiber luminescent DP1.4 video line, I would like to add a personal idea, the flat wire can indeed be placed in the wire winding, and it is convenient to attach the wall to the wire, but if you bend at a right angle like 90 degrees, it is not as convenient as the round thin wire. In addition, although the wire has lighting, but can not be artificially controlled, I hope that the late manufacturers can add the lighting control function, it is best to join the PC's linkage lighting effect of the big family, so that the playability will be higher.
Finally, to remind everyone, FIBBR optical fiber light DP1.4 video line two plugs are different, do not plug in the reverse Oh, especially ready to go on the wall to walk the line, do not be busy for half a day to find out that it is reversed, then the cup.