Geforce 8800 GTX to Tv

[Blade1]

Going to build my brother a pc in the next few weeks, thought he could have my old Geforce 8800GTX card.
I was going to connect it all to his 26" tv save him buying a monitor for the moment, thing is he hasn't got a DVI connector on his tv! and the 8800 hasn't got HDMI.....so is there a connector that would work?
He has got Hdmi....scart and yellow, red and white connector on his tv.

Many thanks for any thoughts.

 

[pcAnywhere]

Kind of surprised that the tv doesn't have a VGA connection too. I believe you can get a hdmi to dvi converter though. Google is your friend

 

[Blade1]

Kind of surprised that the tv doesn't have a VGA connection too. I believe you can get a hdmi to dvi converter though. Google is your friend

Thats right, no VGA connector....and thank you, i will google.

 

[rounddodger]

I have a belkin dvi to hdmi cable to my bravia works a charm. Might be worth checking out if the telly has a full pixel mode as well otherwise you may get overscan issues.

 

[Blade1]

I have a belkin dvi to hdmi cable to my bravia works a charm. Might be worth checking out if the telly has a full pixel mode as well otherwise you may get overscan issues.

Will double check on that.

 

[G-Dubs]

Thinking of doing a similar thing myself, but stumped as to how to get the audio to the TV as DVI is RGB only? How are you planning to do it?

 

[Blade1]

Thinking of doing a similar thing myself, but stumped as to how to get the audio to the TV as DVI is RGB only? How are you planning to do it?

Managed to find an hdmi to vga cable, but don't know if that will produce sound though.

 

[Skilid]

Managed to find an hdmi to vga cable, but don't know if that will produce sound though.

Get a DVI to HDMI adaptor or cable. This will be the best option. Going from hdmi to vga is silly. HDMI is digital, vga is analouge.

They are quite easy to find, and aren't very expensive.

 

[Blade1]

Get a DVI to HDMI adaptor or cable. This will be the best option. Going from hdmi to vga is silly. HDMI is digital, vga is analouge.

They are quite easy to find, and aren't very expensive.

Tv has Hdmi socket....Graphics card has Vga socket.

 

[G-Dubs]

Isn't all this pointless unless you can get the sound there also?

As far as I can work out most TVs will have a 3.5mm jack input, but this will be a diferrent AV input selection to HDMI or VGA and as such cannot be selected at the same time.

 

[DreadNiK]

I have a belkin dvi to hdmi cable to my bravia works a charm. Might be worth checking out if the telly has a full pixel mode as well otherwise you may get overscan issues.

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Isn't all this pointless unless you can get the sound there also?

As far as I can work out most TVs will have a 3.5mm jack input, but this will be a diferrent AV input selection to HDMI or VGA and as such cannot be selected at the same time.

depends if he's trying to use the TV's speakers, if he is, can easily just get cheapo 2.1 pc speakers that will easily be as good as any built in tv sound which tends to be pretty naff.