So we have this gpu: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814130787 and currently a 23" cheap monitor that only has vga and dvi connections which is connected to the dvi port on the card with a dvi/vga adapter that came with the card.
My son would like to add a second monitor for his streaming program and other things to be visible while gaming. Since he doesn't need any fancy graphics on the second monitor we tried to connect an old 18" hp monitor we had laying around. The problem is the monitor has only vga and when we got a dvi adapter we discovered the second dvi port on the gpu is dvi-d which apparently needs to be transcoded to adapt to vga.
So our options appear to be to either:
1) adapt the main monitor from hdmi to dvi instead of dvi to vga and then use the vga adapter to connect the old monitor, or:
2) buy a new hdmi ready monitor. Is this correct?
Obviously I would rather get a $20 adapter than a $130 monitor, but will that even work (and if so what adapter should I look for)? In our tour of Radio Shack and Best Buys last night we found very little in the way of adapters (or help...)
My son would like to add a second monitor for his streaming program and other things to be visible while gaming. Since he doesn't need any fancy graphics on the second monitor we tried to connect an old 18" hp monitor we had laying around. The problem is the monitor has only vga and when we got a dvi adapter we discovered the second dvi port on the gpu is dvi-d which apparently needs to be transcoded to adapt to vga.
So our options appear to be to either:
1) adapt the main monitor from hdmi to dvi instead of dvi to vga and then use the vga adapter to connect the old monitor, or:
2) buy a new hdmi ready monitor. Is this correct?
Obviously I would rather get a $20 adapter than a $130 monitor, but will that even work (and if so what adapter should I look for)? In our tour of Radio Shack and Best Buys last night we found very little in the way of adapters (or help...)
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