Analog to DVI

[Winter09]

Hi,
I was wondering if there was a cable or box of some kind that allows me to hook an analog LCD monitor up to a DVI video card.
Thanks

 

[Gosharkss]

DVI-I connectors support both a digital and analog outputs in the same connector. If the video card has a DVI-I output, it already supports analog out. Most video cards also have a standard VGA connection, there is no benefit to using a DVI-I to analog connection from a video quality point of view.

 

[Winter09]

Right but say I want to hook up two monitors to a video card with VGA and DVI out but I have two analog monitors (a CRT and an LCD), is there some other way to connect both?

 

[Gosharkss]

You simply need a DVI-I to VGA cable. I doubt however that both outputs will work simultaneously

 

[JHMirage]

<< You simply need a DVI-I to VGA cable. I doubt however that both outputs will work simultaneously >>



Unless he's got something like a Gainward GF4 Ti4400... they have combinations of DVI and analog ports and they support multiple monitors.

 

[Winter09]

Ok so just to make sure....
I'm looking at a Geforce4 Ti 4600 which has both a VGA and DVI port and claims the Nvidia nView technology. So all I need is the dvi to vga cable and I can hook up both monitors, correct?
Thanks for the replies!

 

[MoMeanMugs]

Yes

 

[Peter]

... as long as that's a DVI-I connector w/ digital and analog copies of the same screen image, yes.
If it's a digital-only DVI-D out, then no. But fear not, DVI-I is the more common one on standard graphics cards.

The DVI-I connector has three blade shaped contacts aside lots of pin shaped ones. These three are the
analog Red, Green and Blue signals which the DVI-to-VGA adapter will hand over to the 15-pin VGA connector.
These three are missing from DVI-D, so that's easily recognized.

regards, Peter