If you're connecting a device from across the room, you might need to get a pretty long HDMI cable. Be careful of getting one that's too long, though.
I have a PC based on an ASUS TUF 450 mb with a Radeon cpu. I run a cable off the mb HDMI output to a splitter, one cable going to a flat screen, the other to an Epson projector. Works fine, but the ...