DVI cable in monitor??

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grazhopper

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I have recently bought a new Dell 19" Monitor and the monitor gives me two ways to plug it into my PC. One way is that I can use the normal blue VGA wire. The second is I can use a white DVI wire (which my comp is capable of). I'm wondering which one would be better and get better results. I can imagine that the DVI one would be better but I don't know. Can someone clear this up for me?
 
grazhopper said:
I have recently bought a new Dell 19" Monitor and the monitor gives me two ways to plug it into my PC. One way is that I can use the normal blue VGA wire. The second is I can use a white DVI wire (which my comp is capable of). I'm wondering which one would be better and get better results. I can imagine that the DVI one would be better but I don't know. Can someone clear this up for me?
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VGA is analog, DVI is digital. DVI will give you better, clearer results, but not really THAT much more noticeable than the VGA cable. but if you have a choice, def. use DVI.
 
mrjack said:
Usually you can use higher resolutions with analog.
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No higher than the monitor is capable of...

All in all VGA and DVI are basically identical. The only real difference I can find is DVI automatically fills the screen where VGA has to adjust the width and all to fit. This is with LCDs, of course.
 
OK, just got the impression that VGA allows usually a higher resolution with a pretty high refresh rate from all the stuff I've read. For example
"VGA Max res. 2048 x 1536"
"DVI Max res. 1920 x 1200"
stuff like that. That's what a e.g. X800RX (GTO) is capable of, alot of other cards have similar specs when it comes down to resolutions.
 
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