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VGA Vs HDMI

paradisiac

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i currently have a 9500GT going to my 42" Full HD TV via VGA. i am hoping to upgrade the card to a 9800GTX+ or HD57** card. my 9500GT has HDMI out and im pretty sure the new card i go for will too. would i notice a difference is using that over the VGA/DVI-VGA Adaptor?
 
ATi HD5XXXs will be much better for HDMI as they'll also do audio over HDMI too.

As for HDMI versus VGA, HDMI will have a crisper picture with better colour saturation.

57XX is much better than a 9800GTX as well. :)
 
blaineoliver said:
The HDMI is not native, and doesnt include sound on nvidia cards, unless you use a spdif adaptor. 4xxx series will give a nice balance.
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Not sure what you mean about native? If you've got DVI you can use HDMI for your display with a simple adaptor.

And, you can get audio over HDMI from Nvidia cards, not sure if the 9500GT does though.
 
HummuH1 said:
Not sure what you mean about native? If you've got DVI you can use HDMI for your display with a simple adaptor.

And, you can get audio over HDMI from Nvidia cards, not sure if the 9500GT does though.
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As in ATi cards have native audio over HDMI as well as native HDMI connections.

ATi cards seem to work a bit better with HDMI displays and TVs than nVidia cards do due to this.
 
my card has a hdmi socket on it so no need to use adaptors, not to worried about the audio as running an extra lead isnt an issue, just want the best connection fot the best picture quality.
 
You wouldn't notice any difference on a decent display, some favour VGA and others HDMI depending what you have, I've tried quite a few samsung TV's that you can only use VGA on as HDMI just isnt usable, usually poor IQ and or not fitting to screens correctly.
 
If you have an HDMI cable, then I suggest you break it out and use it instead of the VGA, the picture will look better. If you don't have one, they buy one - a 3m HDMI cable can be had for less than a fiver.

As for your new card, I wouldn't let the connectors influence your decision. HDMI and DVI are inter-compatible - so the picture quality is the same. If you get a DVI-only graphics card, simply use a £5 DVI to HDMI adapter on the card or buy a DVI-HDMI cable (most cards come with one anyway). As DVI and HDMI are the same - their is no quality loss using these kind of converters.

even on the 9500GT? i wont get poor quality going for such a high res with it?
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It depends what you are doing. Desktop stuff and HD movies will be totally fine at this res with this GPU. However, playing new games will be a major struggle.

However, are you not already running at the native resolution (1920x1080)? If not, you are doing it wrong.
 
mines only a cheap bush tv, skyHD and the ps3 look good through the hdmi and the xbox360 looks good through the RGB connection, the pc through vga looks good, can sometime take a minute or two for the screen to adjust so it all fits properly, but once its there its fine, just wondered if it could be better.
 
I don't think its down to the hardware, this is from the Nvidia page for your card:

Maximum Digital Resolution 2560x1600
Maximum VGA Resolution 2048x1536
Standard Display Connectors Dual Link DVI
Single Link DVI
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I suggest updating your drivers and using the "Nvidia control panel" to set the resolution. Do you have any HDMI cables to hand? Also, what is the model name of your TV?
 
cmndr_andi said:
I don't think its down to the hardware, this is from the Nvidia page for your card:



I suggest updating your drivers and using the "Nvidia control panel" to set the resolution. Do you have any HDMI cables to hand? Also, what is the model name of your TV?
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at work at the moment so cant try with a hdmi lead, but yeah got a spare one, but the tv model is LT42M1CFA
 
Ah, fair enuf. Would you be able to give us an update when you get home and try it out? :)

The TV is definitely 1920x1080 resolution, so your problem won't be there either - though the PC mode (VGA) may be limiting it. Connecting via HDMI should give you full resolution. Also, if you were running full screen 1600x1200 on a 1920x1080 panel - moving to the native resolution will look very nice indeed.
 
cmndr_andi said:
Ah, fair enuf. Would you be able to give us an update when you get home and try it out? :)

The TV is definitely 1920x1080 resolution, so your problem won't be there either - though the PC mode (VGA) may be limiting it. Connecting via HDMI should give you full resolution. Also, if you were running full screen 1600x1200 on a 1920x1080 panel - moving to the native resolution will look very nice indeed.
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thanks, i have played a few games, admitidly not as many as i would like due to my controller not being very compatible, and since i upped it from 1024x768 to 1600x1200 everything does look a lot better
 
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