[PLUG] Choosing an nVidia card

Rich Shepard rshepard at appl-ecosys.com
Fri Oct 21 14:38:21 UTC 2011


On Fri, 21 Oct 2011, Richard C. Steffens wrote:

> That raises another question: If the nVidia card has a 15-pin VGA output
> and a DVI output, are those for separate monitors or are they just two
> different ways to get to one monitor out of the card?

Dick,

   They're two different output formats. Not all monitors support DVI (as I
discovered with my replacement 19" Hamms-G wide screen). You can run a
capable monitor with either. The DVI is brighter and has a sharper image. As
Galen told me, once you switch from VGA to DVI you won't want to return.

Rich



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