VGA or DVI

[ZickZJ]

Out of curiousity, will hooking up a monitor to the DVI make any sort of difference vs using just the regular VGA?

 

[THUGSROOK]

on a CRT ~ no
on a LCD ~ debatable

 

[Matthias99]

Where the heck would you get a CRT monitor that takes a DVI input (other than maybe an HDTV)? DVI is a digital output standard, and CRTs are analog displays.

For something like an HDTV that *could* take DVI or VGA, I would recommend DVI -- the digital signal is more immune to electrical interference and noise, and odds are the RAMDAC in the TV is better set up for that particular display than the one in your video card. But the differences are going to be minor at best.

 

[yhelothar]

There are CRTs with DVI inputs, but the DVI is DVI-A, which means DVI-Analog, so it won't make a difference from VGA, since they're both analog.

 

[IceMole]

I think he means "would it be better to use the DVI adapter that came with my video card".

 

[ZickZJ]

Originally posted by: IceMole
I think he means "would it be better to use the DVI adapter that came with my video card".

Ding ding, yup that's what I should have said to begin with.