Upgrade from Integrated VGA to PCI-E DVI?

[AAQQ]

Hi,

I have an Acer Aspire E-260 desktop PC that I bought about a year ago. Here are its basic specs:

OS: Win XP MCE 2005
CPU: Athlon 64 3800+
RAM: 1 GB DDR
HD: 250 GB SATA
PS: 300 W

The video subsystem is integrated into the motherboard and the output port is of the VGA variety. I have it connected to my 19" widescreen Acer AL1916W LCD flat-panel display, which can be connected to either a VGA or DVI port.

The motherboard has a PCI-E 16 slot so that I can use a video card instead of the integrated video. I skimmed through "The LCD Thread" and it's suggested that a DVI connection will usually give a better picture.

I use my PC for office apps, websurfing, playing multimedia, etc. but I'm not a gamer. My question is, would it be worthwhile to buy a relatively inexpensive PCI-E 16 video card with a DVI output? By "worthwhile" I mean that I'd hope that there would be a noticeable improvement... not that the display image is currently unacceptable - it's actually decent but not among the best - but if I could improve the image quality by merely switching to DVI, I might go for it.

Thanks in advance!

 

[SunnyD]

For an LCD, DVI is preferred... however if you tune the monitor enough it really doesn't matter much. Depending on the monitor, the VGA quality can be sometimes worse or better than DVI. If you don't do any gaming, and you have no multimedia performance playback issues, I say save your money.

 

[ourfpshero]

I have seen no difference on my hannsg 19" monitor using vga or dvi. tho i have heard that higher resolutions prefer dvi

 

[AAQQ]

Thank you for your feedback... I think I'll just save a few bucks and stick to what I have.

Cheers.