I have a Mitsubishi Diamond Pro 2060u and I want to use it to play Ion Fury. My Titan Black has a Dual Link DVI-I, Dual Link DVI-D, HDMI, and Display Port. What's the best way to connect to the CRT? I'm a little confused because I've read about 'active' vs 'passive' converters for DVI. Should I get some kind of DVI to VGA or is there HDMI to VGA that would be better?
Just put a passive DVI-I to VGA dongle on your card's DVI-I port, it's not rocket science at all.
Else you will need an active converter (such as a HDMI to VGA or DP to VGA).
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Passive DVI to VGA adapters are for video cards that have integrated VGA functionality that is not exposed on a standard VGA connector, but is exposed on otherwise ununsed pins on the DVI-I connector . The passive adapter just links the VGA pins to those on a proper 15-pin VGA connector .
An active adapter will convert HDMI, DVI-D or Displayport signals to VGA using electronics and then expose the converted signal on a proper 15-pin VGA connector .
Newer video cards no longer have VGA functionality inside them and require an active adapter to generate the VGA signal .
Although it is possible to use an active adapter on a card that has VGA functionality through its DVI-I connector, there is typically no point as active adapters are more expensive .
TLDR : Kepler boards are old enough to still support VGA internally and will work with a passive adapter .
definitely get the passive DVI-I dongle, the active converters add a needless layer of complexity and potential quality degradation
Thanks for all the quick answers. Are all of the DVI-I to VGA dongles created pretty much equal in terms of quality?
