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Title: Playing catch-up
Post by: BigFatCat on August 09, 2005, 08:51:42 PM
Well, modern technology finally caught me up. :huh:
My old faithful Compaq P70 monitor (17" Trinitron tube) has been replaced with a Benq fp737s-d.

Now I just need the DVI-D cable and I'm away.

Silly sod didn't look first, discovered there's more than one breed of DVI cable. The hunt begins tomorrow.
Title: Playing catch-up
Post by: Anonymous on August 09, 2005, 08:53:29 PM
QuoteOriginally posted by BigFatCat@Aug 9 2005, 07:51 PM
Silly sod didn't look first, discovered there's more than one breed of DVI cable. The hunt begins tomorrow.
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I didn't know that either! What types of DVI cable can you get then?
Title: Playing catch-up
Post by: Barley on August 09, 2005, 09:58:59 PM
I just use the DVI cable that came with my monitor  :blink:
Title: Playing catch-up
Post by: DarkAngel on August 09, 2005, 11:01:02 PM
Think you would need a DVI-D Cable Single Link 19 pin config which will give you a max res of 1280x1024 and 85hz freq.

Or the higher grade cable DVI-D Double link version with 25 pin config which supports higher resoluton and higher frequency think i use this one for my tv.
Title: Playing catch-up
Post by: BigFatCat on August 10, 2005, 07:43:39 AM
QuoteOriginally posted by DarkAngel@Aug 9 2005, 10:01 PM
Think you would need a DVI-D Cable Single Link 19 pin config which will give you a max res of 1280x1024 and 85hz freq.

Or the higher grade cable DVI-D Double link version with 25 pin config which supports higher resoluton and higher frequency think i use this one for my tv.
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The monitor has a DVI-D double connector, so I'm now trawling for one o'dem.
My 6600GT has a DVI-I double connector, but DVI-D will fit that too.

http://www.datapro.net/techinfo/dvi_info.html (http://www.datapro.net/techinfo/dvi_info.html)