preferably PCI Express...I need VGA and DVI outputs...probably >= 512MB VRAM

10/27/2008 3:22:10 PM

what u usin it for??

10/27/2008 3:54:38 PM

brought to you by the letters A, T, and I...

10/27/2008 3:58:18 PM

They're just going to be backup video cards. I currently have two NVIDIA 6600LE 512MB cards and each card runs to two different monitors, but this particular video card seems to be out of production so I'm looking for a couple nice ~$150-$200 dual out cards.

10/27/2008 3:59:58 PM

how about this?

http://tinyurl.com/65pmhz

10/29/2008 10:10:42 AM

Can't you just put a DVI-VGA adapter on any DVI output to run a VGA'd monitor? I swear I did that at one point with a card I have when I didn't have a DVI monitor yet.

10/29/2008 10:13:47 AM

yes

10/29/2008 10:15:27 AM

^^what good would that do? are you saying i could get a card with 2 dvi outs and use a converter on the output thats going to a vga monitor? doesnt make any sense when i could just get a dual out with both dvi and vga outs, since i need both dvi and vga outs

[Edited on October 29, 2008 at 10:26 AM. Reason : .]

10/29/2008 10:25:12 AM

It was just a little adapter that came in the box with my video card. I suppose you can be stuck with a bastard of a card, or you could get a dual-dvi card and not be stuck having to upgrade the card again if you decide to upgrade the monitor at a later date to a dvi unit. Up to you. Though, it might be possible to covert VGA->DVI with a similar adapter just the same.

10/29/2008 10:30:03 AM

I don't know if converting DVI to VGA works as well since it would seem to be a higher quality, but the monitors I currently have for this application are pretty much going to stick around...they're some pretty sweet Furuno monitors with about 5-6 inputs each...I'm just looking for a couple nice backup DVI and VGA dual out graphics cards in case the existing ones I have fail at some point

thanks anyway

10/29/2008 10:32:42 AM

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"^^what good would that do? are you saying i could get a card with 2 dvi outs and use a converter on the output thats going to a vga monitor? doesnt make any sense when i could just get a dual out with both dvi and vga outs, since i need both dvi and vga outs"

Because you're better off getting two DVI ports. There's no appreciable loss in using a DVI->VGA adapter. All it does is take the analog part of the DVI out and put it in the right spots for VGA.

10/29/2008 11:00:18 AM

get an 8500gt on sale for ~$25

a lot of those come with DVI/VGA

10/29/2008 11:07:46 AM

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"I don't know if converting DVI to VGA works as well since it would seem to be a higher quality"

Shouldn't an IT Supervisor know this?

10/29/2008 6:32:39 PM

$10, but 256mb

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814125076

10/29/2008 9:31:16 PM

i love it...i try to be nice when i point out to nattrngnabob how converting VGA to DVI doesnt work and this faggot Boone / boonedocks tries to troll me as if he was anything more than a high school history teacher who has to make tech talk threads to ask people how to right click and save a link...wow, what a fucking moron
this guy makes this thread message_topic.aspx?topic=472784 and has the audacity to attempt to call out anyone in tech talk? lolololololol...you really, really should consider not posting at all in this entire forum unless you have a QUESTION since you don't have any ANSWERS

^thanks...probably not enough vram though

[Edited on October 30, 2008 at 10:42 AM. Reason : .]

10/30/2008 10:22:45 AM

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"high school history teacher"

Did I not mention that I'm changing careers? I'm moving into a construction consulting job in Charlotte.

My dad's giving me a hookup, even though I'm not actually qualified. Nice work if you can get it.

10/30/2008 10:56:52 AM

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"i try to be nice when i point out to nattrngnabob how converting VGA to DVI doesnt work"

Huh? I thought we were talking about converting DVI->VGA, not the other way around. I'm telling you, DVI->VGA most certainly works, I did it for about 6 months when I upgraded mobo/cpu/ram/vid card (which was dual dvi pci-express) but waiting on LCD prices to come down.

10/30/2008 10:58:25 AM

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"DVI->VGA most certainly works, I did it for about 6 months when I upgraded mobo/cpu/ram/vid card"

So has anyone who's ever owned a CRT monitor and a high-end VGA card at the same time.

10/30/2008 11:06:22 AM

^^of course DVI to VGA works...VGA to DVI doesnt though...too much loss of quality

^^^huh

[Edited on October 30, 2008 at 11:11 AM. Reason : .]

10/30/2008 11:10:55 AM

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"of course DVI to VGA works...VGA to DVI doesnt though...too much loss of quality"

Right, but hasn't this been the whole reason people have been telling you to get a dual-DVI system then and just slap on a VGA adapter?

I used an adapter for about three years on a video card before I finally upgraded my CRT to an LCD. It works.

10/30/2008 11:14:19 AM

well if the price is comparable and the vram is the same i might do that, but in this particular application i never anticipate running each card to 2 dvi monitors...1 dvi monitor is primary, the rgb monitor is a secondary display that wont get used much...plus already ran the cables through some tight spots

10/30/2008 11:22:52 AM

I think the point most people are making is that it's simply future-proofing. You may never, ever use anything other than a VGA monitor. Fine. But one day you may end up scrapping the whole setup and having some spare parts lying around. In that case, the dual-DVI card is going to be worth more to you than one with VGA on it.

In any case, it's unlikely you're going to see a price difference between the two these days - maybe way back when, but not now.

About the only reason I could see specifically going for a DVI/VGA card is due to space limitations - and even then, it would have to be pretty severely cramped to make it such that the extra 1" of space you save from an adapter warrants looking for a specific card.

10/30/2008 11:47:10 AM

lol i love it when stubborn people make threads for advice...

10/30/2008 11:54:05 AM

There are three different types of DVI configurations -- DVI-D (Digital Only), DVI-A (Analog Only), and DVI-I (Digital & Analog). Most video cards these days have two DVI-I ports, so that if a VGA adapter is plugged into the port, it just takes the analog signal and changes it to the right pins on the VGA adapter and ignores the rest of the signal.

It's possible, on a card that has both DVI and VGA ports, that the DVI port may only be outputting the DVI-D signal. So you would be out of luck if you need to hook up two VGA monitors for some reason.

This is one of those cases where there generally isn't any appreciable price difference to not get they dual DVI card.

10/30/2008 12:00:51 PM

i'm not going to get this but it looks pretty ballin

http://tinyurl.com/5wxbdw

10/30/2008 9:07:47 PM