DVI connections.

pauly-chops

I bought a pc on adverts recently, it wasnt until I got home that I realised my monitor had the wrong type of connection. I had VGA and it needed DVI, I never heard of this before so I went out and got a VGA to DVI adaptor.

Anyway, Ive decided to buy a new monitor and was wondering what should I look out for? The connection I have on my pc is DVI-I dual link. From what I have gathered it is able to connect both DVI-A and DVI-D is that correct? Because every monitor I see for sale only has a DVI-D connection. So my question is can I buy a monitor with either DVI-D or DVI-A?

marco_polo

pauly-chops wrote: »

I bought a pc on adverts recently, it wasnt until I got home that I realised my monitor had the wrong type of connection. I had VGA and it needed DVI, I never heard of this before so I went out and got a VGA to DVI adaptor.

Anyway, Ive decided to buy a new monitor and was wondering what should I look out for? The connection I have on my pc is DVI-I dual link. From what I have gathered it is able to connect both DVI-A and DVI-D is that correct? Because every monitor I see for sale only has a DVI-D connection. So my question is can I buy a monitor with either DVI-D or DVI-A?

If you buy a DVI monitor it will only have DVI-D input as DVI-A is meaningless in the context of digital display. DVI-A is used only to convert digital DVI output signals from a graphics card to an analog signals for a (VGA) monitor.

You are correct that DVI-I device\cable is capable of producing\carrying both types of signal.

norbert64

You could scrap both options and go for a monitor with hdmi instead.

Well, technically it would probably be VGA with hdmi, but with a simple adapter for your PC Dvi connection, you'd be all set for HD.

Apdaters like so. (Obviously, you'd have to get the right connections)
http://www.ramelectronics.net/audio-video/adapters/hdmi-dvi-adapters/ada-hdmim-2dvif/prodGEF00008.html

marco_polo

norbert64 wrote: »

You could scrap both options and go for a monitor with hdmi instead.

Well, technically it would probably be VGA with hdmi, but with a simple adapter for your PC Dvi connection, you'd be all set for HD.

Apdaters like so. (Obviously, you'd have to get the right connections)
http://www.ramelectronics.net/audio-video/adapters/hdmi-dvi-adapters/ada-hdmim-2dvif/prodGEF00008.html

Alot of LCD monitors will come with both DVI and HDMI. But unless he buys a monitor with built in sound, and has an graphic cards capable of sending the HDMI audio. then it doesn't really matter whether or not he uses HDMI or DVI as the video signal is the exact same.

Also because the DVI standard does not transmit sound those generic DVI-HDMI adapters are not cabable of carrying the HDMI sound component only video. You need a special propritory DVI-HDMI Adapter specifically designed for the video card that is capable of splicing the HDMI sound component with the digital video signal to produce a proper HDMI signal.

pauly-chops

Ok a little over my head to be honest with ya guys. I got this xps on donedeal.ie and all i know about it is ita Quad core Q6600 2.4Ghz, Nvidia Geforce 8800GTX (768MB) and the sound card is a Creative X-Fi Audio Processor. Does any of that matter when it comes to HDMI?

marco_polo

pauly-chops wrote: »

Ok a little over my head to be honest with ya guys. I got this xps on donedeal.ie and all i know about it is ita Quad core Q6600 2.4Ghz, Nvidia Geforce 8800GTX (768MB) and the sound card is a Creative X-Fi Audio Processor. Does any of that matter when it comes to HDMI?

I could be wrong but I don't think that the 8800GTX can pass through HDMI audio anyway. And if you are going to be using seperate computer speakers for audio then there is zero difference between HDMI and DVI going to the monitor.

pauly-chops

cheers thanks for that, learned something new today at least.