DVI V VGA

Erm I dunno what you mean. The cable should be white both ends (white = DVI), one side fits into a slot like that on your graphics card and the other end fits into a slot like that on your monitor.

If your monitor has a permanently attached blue connector (blue = VGA) then you'll need a VGA to DVI adapter, one of which should have come with the graphics card but if you bought the PC as a whole they might not have given it to you.
 
Ok cheers Dragon. Yea i have the white connector going from the monitor to the pc tower, The confusion for me was that the monitor came with a dvi cable and also the blue d-sub cable which im guessing is the vga? i thought i had to connect them both up to get a better picture quality but dont even have the socket for the blue connector. so im guessing the dvi cable is all i need and dont need to bother with the blue connector?
 
britsols_jim said:
Ok cheers Dragon. Yea i have the white connector going from the monitor to the pc tower, The confusion for me was that the monitor came with a dvi cable and also the blue d-sub cable which im guessing is the vga? i thought i had to connect them both up to get a better picture quality but dont even have the socket for the blue connector. so im guessing the dvi cable is all i need and dont need to bother with the blue connector?
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Correct, you only need one or the other and DVI is the better choice. You're all sorted. :)
 
Well yes, in theory. In reality some monitors treat HDMI inputs as "video" inputs and thus use overscan, which reduces picture quality (since it's no longer a 1:1 pixel mapping). This does not happen with DVI ports so if your monitor doesn't give you the option to enable/disable overscan for whatever input you're using, be wary of this.
 
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