One's the normal monitor cable and one's some wider one, what's the deal, my video card can connect both; what is the difference?

DVI noob. Use the wider one if you can, better image quality :]

plug em both in and see if you can break anything.

Splice them together and see what happens?

DVI is digital. VGA is analogue.

Use the big DVI one. You'll get a better picture quality.

8-)

DUdez how com my power cord only has 2 big sticky outy thingys but the power point in the wall has 3 holes.

How do I turn off my computer? I see a start button but there's no stop button. plz hlp.

where's the any key? i see catarl, pigup, but there's no any key, ah well i'll just order a tab

How do I turn off my computer? I see a start button but there's no stop button. plz hlp.

ahah, I laughed

http://qgl.ausforums.com/?agn=thread&id=2518067

it's for decoration..

DVI noob. Use the wider one if you can, better image quality :]

Yeah yeah but I bet you still use a seperate cable for each colour John...

So what exactly is a better picture quality? Higher resolution? More colours? I have my doubts ...

This feels like the time I switched to using USB keyboard and mouse... I don't know if I trust the world as much...

So what exactly is a better picture quality? Higher resolution? More colours? I have my doubts ...

Nah it's seriously noticable; I used to have a 19" CRT and a 17" LCD. I was always disappointed with the LCD because I'd heard how crystal clear the picture was sposed to be. Then I heard that DVI was better quality, changed it over and BAM - the LCD was suddenly sharp as a tack.

heh well it did fix the 'fonts look retarded' feature I thought my LCD came with...

roffle, i remember when i got 2 cables when i bought my LCD and was WTF!!

in saying that i checked out my monitor online, found out what the type of plug was called then found out if the quality would be "that" much better....

i guess its called knowing how to use the internet.

yeah, but you didn't get to hear little chestnuts like that...

You are the internet.

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CRT monitors being analog devices, (electron gun magnets and all that continuosly going back and forth) require a signal in analog form. However since your computer deals with 1s and 0s the image it would be generating is in digital. So for your standard vga output on your video card, your video card would convert the digital image into an analog signal and your crt monitor would be happy.

However lcd monitors have a matrix of transistors which coincidently means if needs definite boundaries and a digital signal and hence, if you were to use an analog cable the process would be:

-computer generates digital image
-converts digital image to an analog signal
-digital monitor on the other end makes a best guess to convert the analog signal back to digital again

Whereas with DVI:
-digital image
-digital signal
-digital monitor happy

and less interpretation. So in theory DVI should work better since it doesn't have to resample the analog signal back into digital again, and hence if your video card does dvi out (which most modern cards do) you will usually want to choose that over vga if your monitor has dvi in.

I'm running my 22" WS on DVI, and with some movies and .avi's i just get a black screen. Any fix to this apart from switching my monitor to VGA to watch it?

Must be missing a codec dude. Try playing them thru VLC media player and see if that works.

I'm running my 22" WS on DVI, and with some movies and .avi's i just get a black screen. Any fix to this apart from switching my monitor to VGA to watch it?

I sometimes get that in MPC if I use VMR 9 as the renderer. I blame microsoft.

My monitor came with 2 cables as well, but I guess being a more expensive monitor they could afford to include a manual for people to read which tells you which cable is which.

well the quick start chart said attach vga monitor (dvi optional) which tells me f*** all

just by going by the words

vga < dvi

dude, honestly, I suspected it was for cash registers or something wacky...