Am 25. Oct, 2013 schwätzte Stephen so:

> VGA is not as capable of driving certain display resolution/refresh rates
> so it is being rolled out as an outdated technology. I personally am liking
> the move forward to Digital connections, HDMI is a favorite because it will
> transport audio as well and a tone less annoying than VGA and DVI to use.

OK. I've got HDMI on both of my monitors.

> However if you have DVI there are simple adapters that will turn your DVI
> port into VGA and they are rather cheap. so if you don't feel like updating
> your monitor yet (especially on a server) you can get something with a DVI
> port on it, and then reconnect to a VGA connection.
>
> The adapter is pretty dang cheap, and i have several leftover from graphcis
> card purchases in case you do not want to wait:
>
> http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_sb_ss_i_3_10?url=search-alias%3Daps&field-keywords=dvi%20to%20vga%20converter&sprefix=DVI+to+VGA%2Caps%2C256

I've got a few adapters that allow me to go back and forth. I know I can
make it work :), just not if I can set it up optimally.

danke,

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