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Old January 12th 19, 07:02 AM posted to alt.comp.os.windows-10
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Default HDMI or Displayport?

In article , says...

On 01/11/2019 08:53 PM, nospam wrote:
In article , Tim
wrote:

I'm going to be adding an outboard graphics card to my PC. It has, one
each, a DVI-D, a displayport, and and HDMI port. My two monitors both have
DVI-D ports. I know I will need to get an adapter cable of some sort to
connect the second DVI-D monitor to either one of the other ports. Which
one would be best the displayport or the HDMI?


dvi-hdmi adapters are cheap.

FYI, my second monitor also has a VGA port that is currently how it is
driven.


yuk. switch to dvi.


He will, because his new graphics card doesn't have a VGA output.

My old card does, and it can't quite do 1920*1080 through its DVI port,
so VGA is what I must use. And I couldn't care less.

I tried both VGA and DVI with my previous 1280*1024 monitor, and could
see absolutely no difference at all between the two.


I just had occassion to hook-up a Toshiba 32" tv to a HDMI port. Picture
was terrible with text almost unreadable. Switch to tv's and PC's VGA
input connection and it can be easily used as a big pc monitor it's that
clear. I as expecting much better given prior experiences. As I write,
there is a possibility the hdmi cable I was using is garbage, I need
something else to check.

I use a dvi to hdmi converter running from a pc to another tv and it
works fine. clear as a bell at hd res.

One thing I do find is that with these higher resolutions I find myself
adjusting the icons and almost everything else individually so
everything's not too small. And I wish that method was a little easier
to figure out
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