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Sarveshwar   05-24-2009 at 11:20:34 PM

What port must be on the graphics card for my monitor Samsung 2033SW? It has a DVI-D port.
Please check this link: http://www.samsung.com/in/consumer [...] fullspec=F

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Bronze Graphics badge mousemonkey   05-25-2009 at 04:15:36 AM
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The majority of today's cards all come with one and sometimes two DVI ports and will work just fine.

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buzznut   05-25-2009 at 05:58:40 AM
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Hey again,
Yeah most cards will come with dvi, in fact most come with an adapter for older vga monitors. Just check the specs to be sure.

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Sarveshwar   05-25-2009 at 07:04:41 AM
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Hi again buzz...
OK. But what I see on most cards are DVI-I port..
for example, most of the MSI cards I saw have two DVI-I port.
I don't know what is the difference between DVI-D and DVI-I. Plus this single-link and dual-link thing.... How shpuld I choose?
Will DVI-I work with the DVI-D port? And I don't want to use the VGA port...
Thanks for the reply...

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gamerk316   05-25-2009 at 08:23:46 AM
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The only real difference between DVI-D and DVI-I, is that DVI-I is capable of transerring a analog signal, where DVI-D is not. Looking at the pin layouts, a DVI-D should be able to plug into a DVI-I slot.

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Bronze Graphics badge mousemonkey   05-25-2009 at 11:03:33 AM
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Sarveshwar wrote :

Hi again buzz...
OK. But what I see on most cards are DVI-I port..
for example, most of the MSI cards I saw have two DVI-I port.
I don't know what is the difference between DVI-D and DVI-I. Plus this single-link and dual-link thing.... How shpuld I choose?
Will DVI-I work with the DVI-D port? And I don't want to use the VGA port...
Thanks for the reply...


This may help or hinder, hopefully the former.
http://www.datapro.net/techinfo/dvi_info.html

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Zenthar   05-25-2009 at 08:32:10 PM
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DVI-I is just DVI-D (Digital) + DVI-A (Analog). You can plug a DVI-I output to a DVI-D input no problem.

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Sarveshwar   05-26-2009 at 09:55:28 AM
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mousemonkey wrote :

This may help or hinder, hopefully the former.
http://www.datapro.net/techinfo/dvi_info.html



WOW!
I got it now. That was the best explanation I could get.
I'm surely out of dilemma now...

Thank You MM!
And Thank You everybody.

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Sarveshwar   05-26-2009 at 10:05:12 AM
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BTW, IE8 (Win 7) doen't open that datapro website on my computer. Why?
I had to see it via google cache.

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Bronze Graphics badge mousemonkey   05-26-2009 at 10:40:44 AM
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Sarveshwar wrote :

BTW, IE8 (Win 7) doen't open that datapro website on my computer. Why?
I had to see it via google cache.


Unknown mate, but then I'm having my own 'issues' with W7 and as such I'm going to blame the OS. [:mousemonkey]

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