Computer hardware help
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I'm looking into buying a new graphics card, but I'm not sure if its the right one. My old card has a VGA slot, a DVI slot, and a HDMI slot. So I wanted to know, will the new card have to have those, in that order?
My current card only uses the VGA slot, so will it matter if the new one doesn't have the rest?
Please help!
Thanks
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@dulix11 (View Post)
If your computer screen only uses VGA, you won't need support for others... Though I'd suggest having HDMI on it, HDMI is useful and future proof. Newer screens and TVs oft lack VGA ports, so if you ever want to hook up with a TV... -
DVI was designed to replace VGA. I don't know about VGA, but DVI converts the image into analog, and then back to digital, which might, and seriously does, affect the image quality.
Comparing HDMI with DVI, you get similiar results with HDMI, that you would get from DVI by laying not a perfectly clear plastic sheet over your screen. And since DVI was made to replace VGA, I think VGA isn't any better.
So you want to have HDMI slot on your graphic card, if you one day get a new monitor, or a HDMI cable if your current one is HDMI compatible already, you can switch to it.
The order shouldn't matter.
And always check that your screen is compatible with one of the slots on your graphic card, and/or you have a suitable cable. -
@jenn4 (View Post)
VGI works perfectly fine, so does HDMI, the thing is, some monitors cannot read on such a high frequency to render an HD from a VGA input, that's what HDMI is for, ah yes, HDMI also transfers sound
