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Title: Distrubution?
Post by: wiskyfog on December 21, 2013, 02:17:29 PM

Is it better to plug the monitor into the motherboard or graphics card, both have DVI ports

Title: Re: Distrubution?
Post by: Bino on December 21, 2013, 02:51:31 PM

With standard Windows graphics driver software, if you plug the monitor into the motherboard, your graphics card won't be putting images on the monitor, only the CPU graphics circuits will be involved.

Title: Re: Distrubution?
Post by: Bizman on December 21, 2013, 05:34:20 PM

Quote from: wiskyfog on December 21, 2013, 02:17:29 PM

Is it better to plug the monitor into the motherboard or graphics card, both have DVI ports

What???
If you have a dedicated graphics card, it should be far better than the one on your motherboard. That's reason #1. Reason #2 being that you shouldn't be able to see anything with that graphics card installed if you plugged into your motherboard's DVI port.

Title: Re: Distrubution?
Post by: MrRiplEy[H] on December 22, 2013, 03:45:46 AM

Quote from: Bizman on December 21, 2013, 05:34:20 PM

What???
If you have a dedicated graphics card, it should be far better than the one on your motherboard. That's reason #1. Reason #2 being that you shouldn't be able to see anything with that graphics card installed if you plugged into your motherboard's DVI port.

Generally thats true but some boards enable you to use your built in gpu for a secondary display. But as Bizman said if you have a graphics card installed you always plug your main display there and not to the motherboard.

Title: Re: Distrubution?
Post by: wiskyfog on December 23, 2013, 01:25:39 PM

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Title: Re: Distrubution?
Post by: zack1234 on December 24, 2013, 05:42:08 AM

I plug my TV into graphics card HDMI or DVi :old:

Title: Re: Distrubution?
Post by: vHACKv on December 26, 2013, 04:26:29 AM

Since you are using a headset I would say DVI, if you were listening to sound out of your TV then HDMI. The cables are essentially the same, even though the connectors look quite different. DVI does not support sound, but HDMI does not support resolutions above 1920 well.

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Title: Re: Distrubution?
Post by: Bizman on December 26, 2013, 04:39:55 AM

Quote from: vHACKv on December 26, 2013, 04:26:29 AM

Since you are using a headset I would say DVI, if you were listening to sound out of your TV then HDMI. The cables are essentially the same, even though the connectors look quite different. DVI does not support sound, but HDMI does not support resolutions above 1920 well.

<S> HACK :cheers:

Not to mention that the sound circuit in your graphics card may cause problems for your gameplay. If you don't listen to your computer sounds through your TV, it would be better to remove the sound drivers of the vidcard and disable its sound circuit in the Device Manager.