DVI vs VGA

[collisster]

currently I have a screen with VGA input, what difference would i see with a DVI input screen?

thanks

 

[BillytheImpaler]

It'll probably give you a little sharper picture, depending on how good your monitor is of converting the analog signal from VGA to a digital signal it can use. Try it out and see if it's better.

 

[helmutcheese]

On bigger screens at higher RES yes DVI is better, on a 17" LCD doubt you notice.

 

[mattyfez]

On my 22" 1680x1050, I notice a definate increace in sharpness when switchng from VGA to DVI.

 

[InKursion]

On my 8800GTX I had to use a DVI output.

I guess newer and newer cards will 'force' the user to switch from VGA to DVI. So, based on that assumption, there's got to be some sort of technological advantage where DVI > VGA. Not an expert on this though, as you can tell .

 

[Jeeva]

Are you sure you were forced by the card?
Mine works fine with a VGA-DVI converty thing, though it has two DVI ports.
Of course, as I'm on an old CRT, I don't get to use DVI if I wanted, but I want to upgrade my screen, as my friends DVI 'seems' sharper/nicer somehow.

May be some form of placebo effect, though. Who knows!

 

[Indy500]

Can't say I've noticed any difference, but it depends on the monitor.

 

[mattyfez]

Hard to notice a difference if you dont see the two side by side tbh, but my GPU has 1xVGA out and 1xDVI out, and when i was messing about with duel screens etc, I used both.
on both screens you can see that DVI is a little bit sharper when you change, vga has a slightly fuzzy look to it if you swap back from DVI.

 

[Z][GGY]

imo in most cases dvi wins