DVI-D Question

[Evil-I]

Heres one for you,

In work we've just got a Dell Precision M90 Laptop, a storming core duo lappy with Quad FX gfx (for mobile video editing with Avid). Now I'm not that familiar with the various flavours of DVI so I got a bit confused as to why the DVI-VGA adapter I had hanging around wouldn't fit. After a bit of head scratching I realised that DVI-D has 4 less pins (near the spade part) than normal DVI, so I rang Dell just to confirm what this means.

Their opinion was that it is a dual DVI-D designed for digital only and as Its Dual you could attach two (DVI) monitors to it (with appropriate splitter cable).

I then did a little research myself and found that DVI-D basically has twice the digital paths allowing much higher res output for very high res panels etc, but I found no mention of the ability to seperate one DVI-D to two standard DVI's.

Now my question is, which is it?

My suspicion is that is Dell talking out of their posterior, but it would be nice to be wrong.

Help, greatly appreciated,


E-I

 

[Spyhop]

I think they've seen the word dual and made it up as they went along.

My understanding of "dual link" DVI is that it has the extra bandwidth needed for running a single monitor at super high res.

 

[Evil-I]

Thats sorta what I'd guessed,

Good old Dell, this was even their speaicalist workstation support division!

Thanks for reply,

E-I