Could you guys tell me more about BNC cables for the monitor?

[julianf]

as it's posted, i saw a post about using BNC cables between the card and the monitor, but i can't figure out how it's done?

 

[lazyboy]

Umm for me I just have the BNC plugs in the back of my monitor and I plug those into the video card. I have a BNC cable for it.

 

[julianf]

what kind of card? and what kind of monitor?

 

[rbV5]

BNC cables just plug into the video card like any monitor cable, the monitor has the BNC connections. They will be on the back along with a standard VGA(d-sub) connector.

For instance my Mitsubishi Diamond pro 2040u at work has BNC connections, my Optiquest Q95 at home does not. Generally higher quality professional monitors have them, monitors geared towards home use. do not.

 

[ndee]

And on the Samsung 700NF, I think that the Text is a little bit sharper with BNC cables then with a normal one.

 

[julianf]

well, i might as well give up on that ass nor my phillips 19" or my matrox g450 has bnc connectors.

 

[rbV5]

like I said, the BNC connectors are on the MONITOR not the video card, your matrox card will work with BNC connectors.

 

[julianf]

somekind of special cable? bnc 75ohm with d-sub in one end?

 

[knsaber]

yea i've had a 21" Digital or Dell monitor sitting in our basement for years because it had BNC cable in the back, but how do you hook it up to a video card? what kind of cable do you need? BNC on one side, and what's on the other side, standard 19pin on the other? what's a d-sub?
will it work with any video card?

 

[Andy22]

d-sub is the standard interface that plugs into all video cards.

 

[GrumpyMan]

You can get the BNC cable at Bestbuy for around $50.00. It will hook up to any video card. On the monitor there will be 5 or 6 cable connectors. You will see that each of the 5 or 6 connectors has a letter on it or two. You match up the letters on the cable with the ones on the monitor which are raised and legible. They twist one half turn to connect. The picture on my monitor does seem to be much sharper text wise with the BNC cable on. You can tell instantly if the monitor supports BNC by the five or six connectors on the back. It does not require any software whatsoever to function.

 

[julianf]

still don't get it... is there a special brand or a typename for this cable?

 

[bigbootydaddy]

About to buy a 20" bnc trinitron refurb monitor just to play with.

 

[Rellik]

About BNC: The BNC cable most of you will know is the BNC network
cable from those 10Mbit days. Those are 50ohm cables. 75ohm cables are
for video transmission and are used in broadcast enviroments(studio tv monitors, etc.) They come in 2 versions: one cable that only has one plug that has all information travelling on the same cable, is called
composite. The other version is called component video because there are 3-6 plugs, they have the main colours seperated (RGB or YUV) The typical PC Monitor features a D-SUB 9 pin cable but the BNC connection
features one D-SUB connector(for your graphics card) and 5 BNC pins on the other end for the BNC plugs on the monitor. They are the 3 base colours and the horizontal and vertical sync.

You cannot use plug and play with a BNC setup so please install the proper driver for your monitor PRIOR to installing BNC. Since V-Sync is needed for this setup, it could be that you will have to enable it
allthough I am not sure on this one.

hope this helps.

Belkin makes BNC cable that is cheap.

 

[Maverick]

any real advantage to BNC over standard vga?

 

[Mem]

<< any real advantage to BNC over standard vga? >>



Yes &amp; no,some people notice the improvement,I did while others could not,anyway for me everything seemed slightly sharper &amp; clearer,I would not go back now to the normal cable.

 

[Maverick]

does it improve refresh rates at all?

 

[Mem]

Shiva112 The refresh rates are the same,you do loose plug &amp; play with BNC,but since most monitors have their own drivers no big deal.