DVI to VGA dongle

Jjoshua2

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http://cgi.ebay.com/Brand-NEW-...25188779QQcmdZViewItem

I was looking at that and it looked like it was saying it has two dvi and comes with 2 converter dongles. Is there any quality loss? Since I am using CRT should I get one that comes straight VGA? The card I have now has one VGA and one digital kind. Should I go for that now or do they not make those anymore? Thanks!
 

PurdueRy

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Originally posted by: Jjoshua2
Ok, cool. Glad I don't have to worry about it. Does everybody else agree?

No jello is completely incorrect and yet I agree with him fully

:confused:





Use the dongle and don't worry
 

YOyoYOhowsDAjello

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Originally posted by: PurdueRy
Originally posted by: Jjoshua2
Ok, cool. Glad I don't have to worry about it. Does everybody else agree?

No jello is completely incorrect and yet I agree with him fully

:confused:





Use the dongle and don't worry

:confused: :p
 

trOver

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A guy at a store tried to get me to by the more expensive one because "its the same kind ATI uses in their pruducts"
 

krotchy

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DVI connection by default has 1 VGA connection inside of it to allow backwards compatibility. The dongle simply routes the VGA signal to a VGA cable, nothing more. You cant do any better than that for a CRT pretty much.
 

Roguestar

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Originally posted by: YOyoYOhowsDAjello
The adapters work just fine. Don't worry about it.

I've been using a DVI-VGA connector for two years now on various cards.
 

PurdueRy

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Originally posted by: Jjoshua2
Are they all the same? No compatibility or quality differences? http://cgi.ebay.com/Ati-DVI-I-...97QQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem
One on ebay for $3.50 says for ATI cards. Would it work with Nvidia?

Yes its all the same. Provided that the video out port is a DVI-I and not a DVI-D.

I have never seen a graphics card with a DVI-D out but I have seen monitors with DVI-D in only.

Basically DVI-D has no analog portion and DVI-I does.

Anyway, if you are using this from a graphics card as you imply...don't worry, they are all the same and they will all work.