DVI vs VGA on 24" or above monitors...
 

I asked the question about a month ago on whether or not DVI made a difference on flat panel monitors...

The people using DVI all had 20 inches or less monitors and could not give me a definitive answer.

I have to say, if you are planning on using a monitor above 20" I highly suggest you use DVI inputs and not VGA. The difference is HUGE. If you have any questions about it, stop by a CompUSA and ask someone who works there to plug in the same demo monitor of 24" or more into both a VGA demo computer and a DVI demo computer. You will be amazed at the difference in clarity.

Agreed. I see the different more when running two 30" screens than when running two 24" screens, but it's definitely there, for gaming especially.

Sorry that I missed your question before -- I would have given you the story then.

I use a 20" and a 24" and they were both on VGA inputs. A friend of mine was over and he asked why the 24" looked kinda substandard when compared with the 20"... So I upgraded and invited him back... Now he is like, DAMN! The 20" looks like shit now!

Cool deal. The only headache for me is disabling SLI every time I want to run both monitors (which, incidentally, is MOST of the time, so I guess the headache is actually ENABLING SLI when I want to play games).

I still have vga monitor and vga graphic card.

How do you manage to play games and make enough to buy companies?

i cant answer for him, but playing games is what keeps me sane enough to keep working

i see the difference on my 17" LCD, DVI is much sharper, thin lines have shadows with VGA monitor output

Otherwise known as ghosts...

I use VGA because i'm lazy to change it.
I dont really game much so it works well.

I keep the game playing to a minimum, but I use it to blow off steam ... instead of murdering people. :1orglaugh

You might wanna upgrade your drivers, you can enable and disable SLI without restarting now.

heh, very true

I have the latest drivers. Who said anything about rebooting? :winkwink:

Now, to get it working under Linux so I can play Tux Racer in SLI ... *wet dream* .. bah hahaha.

You wanna take this outside?

Speaking of which, get back to beta testing Autoblogger Pro Standalone 1.0, or no dinner for you! :winkwink:

It depends on the monitor, with some you can see an improvement, with other it's the same. For 24" or above you should use a dual link dvi-d connection to get best out of it.

planning to buy new 17" flatscreen but still on vga! T_T

http://www.edgeprod.com/dom/wow/rag-large2.jpg

Ragnaros in all his glory at 1920xsomething.

http://www.edgeprod.com/dom/wow/voodoo-logo.jpg

A logo I did for my WoW guild, ha!

Yeah, I game. What of it? *grin*

LOL I dont seem to have notice any one say that DVI is digital and VGA is analog....

Any way digital offers a higher Screen Rez.

That's a good point.

BTW WOW For the Win.... :P

GG.

Even <20" displays will benefit from DVI in terms of brightness and contrast. Make sure you're using a DVI-D cable to harness DVI to its maximum (unless the monitor uses a DVI-I converter, in which case it shouldn't matter).


VGA is analalgue - using DVI on a CRT or DVI-A cable is slighlty better than VGA in terms of clarity, but you need to transmit the digital signal to the digital monitor with DVI-D - just amazing clarity.

DVI vs VGA on my dual Samsung syncmaster 225bw 22" monitors is huge. Dvi is the way to go. :thumbsup

I'm hooked on Dual-DVI AGP Pro cards. Would never go back to VGA. :thumbsup

yea, it makes it clearer and sharper, go for DVI cable for sure :thumbsup