360 through monitor

Sleeve · 29 Dec 2010 at 01:21

Seen a lot of people have their 360's set up on their desks through their monitors. Thinking about doing it myself. Might stop the mrs whine-ing at me when i want to play fifa online!

What cable do you use, and how does the audio work?

Tonyator · 29 Dec 2010 at 01:27

I'm using the Official VGA Cable and audio through separate PC speakers.

Drake5 · 29 Dec 2010 at 01:29

I play through a 24" monitor and it's fine. Use a VGA Cable which comes with a sound jack which you then plug into your PC's microphone soundcard jack.

Sleeve · 29 Dec 2010 at 01:29

Tonyator said:
I'm using the Official VGA Cable and audio through separate PC speakers.

Im having a look at the third party ones on Amazon, not sure whether there'll be a noticeable difference is quality...

Drake5 · 29 Dec 2010 at 01:30

I've never compared them my self, but apparently the unofficial ones are terrible.

Gackt · 29 Dec 2010 at 01:32

TDenic said:
I've never compared them my self, but apparently the unofficial ones are terrible.

I've used unofficial ones and found zero difference in quality. Same goes for other cables. I've used a Belkin and a non-brand Optical cable. No difference.

Sleeve · 29 Dec 2010 at 20:37

With the official one do you get the RCA adapter, and the coupler? Or do i need to get these separately?

Mr Men · 29 Dec 2010 at 20:41

You get the adaptor but not the coupler IIRC with the official one

orderoftheflame · 29 Dec 2010 at 20:52

Sleeve88 said:
Im having a look at the third party ones on Amazon, not sure whether there'll be a noticeable difference is quality...

I've seen and heard other reports of bad ghosting on some unofficial cables.

Official all the way imo.

LoGaN_TnT · 29 Dec 2010 at 20:53

Tonyator said:
I'm using the Official VGA Cable and audio through separate PC speakers.

+1

Tonyator · 30 Dec 2010 at 02:41

Mr Men said:
You get the adaptor but not the coupler IIRC with the official one

Yep, I have to buy the coupler separately.

A2Z · 30 Dec 2010 at 03:03

I use VGA adapter, not official, but from a high street 'game' retailer

Had to buy couple of adapters for the sound to connect my headphones/speakers

point decay · 30 Dec 2010 at 03:16

get the official VGA cable, had two third party ones prior, and they both gave terrible image quality

Sanchez · 30 Dec 2010 at 11:41

When you can get the official one for such a reasonable price, why take the risk?

Hilly · 30 Dec 2010 at 11:57

I use the official VGA cable to connect to my 26" LCD. I've also heard bad things about non official cables.

Sound wise, the red and white go into my aux inputs on my amp, or if I have my x-rocker up, they plug into the connectors supplied.

easy/

A2Z · 30 Dec 2010 at 14:36

Sanchez said:
When you can get the official one for such a reasonable price, why take the risk?

£15 for official or £10 for non-official, so saving 33% for no loss of quality seems a no brainer to me

LoGaN_TnT · 30 Dec 2010 at 15:26

A2Z said:
£15 for official or £10 for non-official, so saving 33% for no loss of quality seems a no brainer to me

Who said there is no loss in quality. I had a madcatz VGA cable £6 b4 I got official vga cable the difference is night n day.

Breach · 30 Dec 2010 at 16:26

I bought a monitor earlier this year especially for this.
24" 1080p Dell with HDMI.
I think it was only about £140 ish.
Best thing i've done, for the reasons you stated

edit: the monitor has an Audio Out socket (0.9mm ?), the normal one anyway. I run a lead from that to a second input on my speakers.

apatia77 · 30 Dec 2010 at 16:29

I connect my 360 via vga to Dell monitor. It works brilliantly, then I connect audio cable to my pc speakers.

orderoftheflame · 30 Dec 2010 at 17:33

A2Z said:
£15 for official or £10 for non-official, so saving 33% for no loss of quality seems a no brainer to me

Where's this no loss of quality come from?

Lots of people (me included) have seen quality loss from third party cables.