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Upgrade to DVI?

lynchy6789 said:
shoot1st i found there was a big difference when i changed to DVI. As you said i think there is two arguments here.
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I'm not arguing that DVI isn't sometimes superior to VGA - I'm talking about digital cables and the quality variations (as you can see if you click the links I posted).

shoot1st said:
I'm quite happy to let my eyes and ears be the judge as to whether I notice the difference, not other peoples opinions.

I'm also quite happy to sit and bask in my own ignorance if that's the case, if you want to prove me wrong then please be my guest.
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Repeating yourself like this just makes you look a bit silly to be honest. I've already responded to your request to be educated... You enjoy your obstinance.
 
Aekeron said:
I'm not arguing that DVI isn't sometimes superior to VGA - I'm talking about digital cables and the quality variations (as you can see if you click the links I posted).

Repeating yourself like this just makes you look a bit silly to be honest. I've already responded to your request to be educated... You enjoy your obstinance.
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There really is no need to be insulting, I could quite easily say the exact same thing to you, but I won't because I understand that it is about personal opinion.

What we are arguing about here is whether a difference can be noticed between a £10 DVI cable and a £1.50 DVI cable from Ebay. I, through my own personal experience, believe that there is a difference. You, through your own personal experience, believe that there isn't a difference. With the obvious risk of repeating myself, I'm perfectly happy for you to believe what you want to believe, I'm not about to insult you because you have an opinion that differs from mine, that would be silly.

At the end of the day, image quality issues aside, if you want to hook your maybe £400 gfx card up to your maybe £400 monitor via a £1.50 (inc P&P) DVI cable from Ebay, which for all you know could have been put together by a one-armed monkey with bad eye sight and a dodgy hair cut, all for the sake of having an extra £7.50 in your back pocket, then by all means, be my guest. In fact, I want you to.

Now, you have 2 choices, you can either understand that somebody else might have a different opinion to you, or you can keep your head firmly up your own bum and continue to insult me.

Which is it going to be?
 
Hehe there will be no difference in picture quality with digital between a £10 and £1.50 cable... it will either be fine, really terrible or not work at all... there might be issues with the build quality but thats another matter.
 
shoot1st said:
still missing the point
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A basic knowledge of electronics and how digital connections work will show you that you're wrong. There's no "opinion" involved.

I've had enough of bashing my head against a particularly thick brick wall though. The OP has bought a cable of some description and I'm sure it'll work out okay. *shrug*
 
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How hilarious, the "it's my opinion" stuff always cracks me up...

High priced digital cables exist because people who have "opinions" will buy them.
 
We're talking about a £10 DVI cable here for god's sake, not a £300 one.

My opinion is that I will buy a £10 DVI cable over a £1.50 one from Ebay, that's all. If all I'm getting for my extra pennies is a better build quality, a certain guarantee that nothing is going to go pear-shaped and a delusion that I'm getting a slightly better picture then that'll do for me.
 
shoot1st said:
We're talking about a £10 DVI cable here for god's sake, not a £300 one.

My opinion is that I will buy a £10 DVI cable over a £1.50 one from Ebay, that's all. If all I'm getting for my extra pennies is a better build quality, a certain guarantee that nothing is going to go pear-shaped and a delusion that I'm getting a slightly better picture then that'll do for me.
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Well.. It's arrived i suppose thats one thing.
But im not getting a picture just showing me 'no signal input'

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My opinion is that I will buy a £10 DVI cable over a £1.50 one from Ebay, that's all. If all I'm getting for my extra pennies is a better build quality, a certain guarantee that nothing is going to go pear-shaped and a delusion that I'm getting a slightly better picture then that'll do for me
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Disregarding the potential image quality difference, I personally find there are two handy benefits to using DVI:
  1. Every selected resolution fits the screen - adjusting image size/position or using the monitor's auto adjust option is no longer necessary
  2. Ability to scale fullscreen games/apps to the correct aspect ratio (in my experience with an ATI card it doesn't give you the option to maintain aspect ratio if you're hooked up via VGA... don't know if this applies to Nvidia cards aswell, haven't tried)
 
MarkW7 said:
Well.. It's arrived i suppose thats one thing.
But im not getting a picture just showing me 'no signal input'

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Might need to change the input source using the controls on your monitor (my Samsung screen has a source button to toggle between VGA/DVI input).
 
Havnt got another DVI monitor and card only has one DVI.

- Thats what i did there a button on the front VGA, DVI.
 
This being the main difference between a £1 cable and one for £10 haha.

Hope you can sort it out though, not sure how else you can test the cable though apart from trying on another computer, friends or one a work prehaps? If it fails on another system it probably is the cable thats faulty
 
when its in it loads the xp screen up but then doesnt show anything else - just goes black and says no input
 
It's strange that you're getting a picture while the XP load screen shows but none from then on in, sounds like something else might be going on.

Does it still boot up ok with the D-Sub cable?
 
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