Re: Recommendations on Video Splitter

husky86 wrote:
I need recommendations on a video splitter.

I just got a new HP desktop machine and I'm trying to hook it up to 2 Dell 2001FP monitors, but I don't have the adapter/splitter yet.

My video card is an ATI Radeon HD 3650 PCIe x16.

Can anyone make a reccomendation as to the exact adapter/splitter I need to make this setup work?

Thanks!

The 2001FP has VGA and a DVI-D on it. If your new card has one
VGA and one DVI-I connector, then you could use a VGA cable for
one monitor, and a DVI cable for the other monitor. If the card has
two DVI-I connectors on the faceplate, you could use two DVI cables.
DVI would be preferable for the best image quality (with good
quality cables, there is zero degradation).

http://support.dell.com/support/edocs/monitors/2001fp/EN/specs.htm

If, on the other hand, there is a Display Port connector on the video
card, to me at least, that would be perfectly useless. There
aren't a lot of Display Port monitors out there yet, so that would
not be my first pick in a connector type.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Display_port

More info on DVI here, for comparison. DVI is very common on monitors now.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital_Visual_Interface

DVI-I carries the signals for VGA and DVI on the same connector.
If you need VGA, a DVI-I to VGA dongle does the conversion.
In the following picture, the VGA output is on the left hand side.
DVI-I on the right hand side connects to the video card.

http://c1.neweggimages.com/NeweggImage/productimage/12-214-015-02.jpg

For a more precise answer, we'd need to see the faceplate of the card,
or a spec listing the connector types it has on it.

Paul
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