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Old September 25th, 2005, 10:23 AM   Digg it!   #1 (permalink)
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DVI vs Analog on LCD

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I am thinking about getting rid of my 21" crt and replacing it with a third 19" LCD. I have a visiontek radeon 9200 64mb pci card being fixed under warranty. Would it be worth it to install this as a third video card to have 3 dvi outputs? Or I could just hookup the third LCD analog.

How much difference does the dvi connection make?

All opinions welcome.
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Old December 14th, 2005, 01:50 PM     #2 (permalink)
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In terms of quality difference between a digital connection (DVI) versus and analog (VGA / HD-15) connection, from what I've seen, it's barely noticeable (given the same monitor and graphics hardware). To the degree that there is any difference, it's in the colors and contrast. Of course, to many, any difference is a big difference.

However, I also suspect that lower quality graphics hardware and/or monitors would make the difference more noticeable. I know that with analog monitors (CRTs), the quality of graphics hardware (and the monitor, of course) is an issue.

Here's a good summary of digital display technology versus analog display technology...
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