First post, by XTac
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Hey there,
I recently acquired a 4:3 Eizo LCD display, native resolution of 1600x1200. I have found out that analogue is actually superior to digital with that screen. Lower resolutions than native on full screen look much sharper and monitor allows you to adjust the image better, where as with digital low resolutions are blurry and pixelated. My "retro" computer has two graphic cards: HD 3850 AGP and Voodoo 3 PCI. Here is where my confusion starts - the monitor doesn't have VGA, only two DVI inputs. Voodoo 3 has VGA only - but VGA to DVI-A cables exist, and that seems to be the best option here. However, the HD 3850 doesn't have VGA either, so i need to make a analogue connection with DVI plugs at both ends. Unfortunately, cables with DVI-A at both ends are very rare if not impossible to find, i even doubt that they exist. DVI-I, which supports both digital and analogue could work, but i am unsure how will i be able to force analogue signal while pins for digital are present.
Do you have any recommendations for my situation here? I want both my cards to run on analogue signal. Do any of you have suggestions on some high quality VGA - DVI A cables that have the best image quality? Or maybe DVI-I is the better choice for the HD 3850? Thank you for all answers, i know that my question seems trivial but i never really used DVI. Everything would be so much more clear to me if there was one VGA port on the monitor.