Should I use the DVI-A or VGA on my CRT monitor? Which is better?

[RalfHutter]

Take a deep breath and relax.


Now go spend $15 on a regular VGA cable. When your monitor is delivered, run a test and compare the image quality using both different types of cables. Use the cable that gives you the best quality. Be happy knowing that it only cost you the price of a VGA cable to have true peace of mind.

 

[thorin]

P.S. thorin, thanks for helping out in here. I appreciate it man.

No problemo man, that's what we're here for.

In it, it states that using a DVI connection to a CRT monitor is preffered, citing that the DAC in the monitor is used instead of the video cards, and it demonstrates why this is a "good" thing. My problem is IMO this isn't a very impressive DAC. It can only do 1600x1200x60hz! The DAC in the Radeon is like 400mhz and can do insane refresh rates and resolutions. Seems to me that if the Radeon's DAC is better then it would be better to use VGA so that we bypass the inferior monitor DAC (?).

From what we saw (read) yesterday I would have to assume that this would only be true for DVI-I or DVI-D since DVI-A only mates with the Analog pins of the DVI connector there wouldn't be any digital signal for the monitor to process with it's DAC (Digital to Analog Converter). Right?

Thorin