Jean Fredette wrote:
pjp posted:

gold plated cables which are no better than regular quality made cables

Its the quality of the output on the monitor screen that I was asking about
for the three possible formats (not the cable quality).
blue vga
white dvi
dark hdmi

And I was also wondering about how it gets the sound since I don't see any
speakers but it has a headphone output but I don't see any sound input.

The monitor is an LG Flatron E2341.

Audio over HDMI.

The claim is, your video card barely has it. (Audio provided as of
that version of HDMI. 8 channel LPCM.)

NVidia was originally a bit lazy. They put an SPDIF connector
at the top edge of their video cards, and you were supposed
to run a cable from the motherboard, over to the video card.
Your Geforce 210 is supposed to have an actual HDAudio digital
source to drive that function instead. The video card driver
package should mention it also contains an audio driver file.
In Windows, you select "HDMI audio" or at least select some
other option besides the ones your sound card is providing.

The monitor, if it has a headphone jack, could extract
2-channel LPCM from HDMI and send it to the headphone jack.
A headphone jack is usually good for a 32 ohm load (i.e. not
enough to drive some 100W 2 ohm speakers :-) ) The DVI
might not support that, hard to be certain what comes
out of the DVI port.

That gives the HDMI cable a slight edge, in terms of
"fun factor" and "what-if".

Paul