DVI out on a video card?

[ride525]

I'm builiding a new system with Athlon 2800+ on a ECS motherboard. 512 mb ram. using 80 gig hard drive. I web surf, do some Word and Excel for work, work a little with MP3s, and have a digial camera.

Current Monitor is 19" Philips 109s CRT.

I'm thinking strongly of getting one of the 9200se videos cards at newegg. The one I have my eyes on is the connect3d. But I noticed it doesn't have DVI out. Will I be possibly missing something if I want to replace my monitor sometime in the future if I do not get DVI out?

Thanks again for all your help,

Jeff

 

[Peter]

You'll be missing the dual head capability. Remember that the DVI output is a DVI-I, also having an analog VGA signal for a 2nd CRT.

 

[Subhuman25]

LCD monitors use that DVI out port.Although you have the option of using regular VGA also as many LCD screens have both.The catch is better image quality using DVI.
Bottom line is:Get a video card that has DVI out should you choose to upgrade to LCD in the near future and not build an entire system in about a year or 2.
Any reason you're going with a low-end card like the 9200SE?

Please refrain from double posting in multiple forums in the future

 

[ride525]

Going with the 9200SE becasue it's a relative low budget system (see first post).

Any reason I should consider spending more for 9600 or 9800?

Thanks,

Jeff