BNC cables??

[Cheesemoo]

ok i have BNC cable connectors on my monitor, just wondering about them. are they better or worse than the regular conector??

thanks...

 

[Def]

Definitely better. I think it's the best $12 I've ever spent on an upgrade.

 

[Cheesemoo]

cool thanks. i think i am gonna order some. been wondering what they were all about. found me some for 12 too🙂

 

[BlakkIce]

where where where

 

[Cheesemoo]

well we have

harbourtownsales for 12 bucks, 7 ground shipping

with a reseller rating of 6.8 🙂reseller ratings

but this maybe better

casecooler 14 bucks with 4 shipping..

7.0 resellerrating but only one vote so who knows
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hope that helps
cheese out

 

[DARRIN]

I put BNC cables on both my Sony monitors and I did not see a real improvement.

 

[PliotronX]

I bought some BNC cables for a Samsung 900NF (19" aperture grille monitor for those who do not know) I had a while ago, and noticed absolutely no difference to the stock cable (was using 1600x1200@85Hz BTW). Our resident monitor man, Gosharkss, explains the BNC cables in this thread, and also provides a link for even more info. Basically, if your video card does not have BNC connectors (i.e., you're going to use a cable with BNC on one end, and 15pin on the other to your video card), there is going to be no difference. It's best to use the stock 15pin cable because the BNC does not inclue a pin for the plug-n-play feature in monitors, so the computer may freak out when looking for a monitor. Users seeing a difference are probably being affected by the placebo... (not a flame)

 

[Cheesemoo]

thanks for the info guys.... time to go read some more....

 

[LXi]

PliotronX was mostly right. A BNC->15pin cable will not increase image quality because the you're "bottlenecked" by the 15pin end. However it is incorrect to say that any noticable difference is placebo effect, because the BNC->15pin cable itself can still provides better data integrity than the some mid/low-end 15pin-15pin cables(but manufacturers like Sony and Samsung usually dont bundle low quality cables with high-end monitors), but if you use high density, high quality 15pin-15pin cables, BNC will have virtually no advantage. The other thing is, Windows work just fine with the non-PnP compliant BNC inputs, it will not go crazy.