Question on my video card.

I am curious if there is a way to hook my pc up to my flat screen tv. I have a 570 GTX video card that has a mini hdmi port on the back of my video card and I was wondering if by getting a cable to hook up from there could I connect it to my flat screen tv that has hdmi. Since I would really like to try my computer out with this new big screen I have. Would it be as simple as getting the right cord or would I have to go through a lot just to do it.

Alright thank you. I was hoping it would be as simple as having one of the cables with the mini hdmi on one side and normal on the other since I have never done anything with hdmi before.

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