DVi graphics card worth it ?

[deanos]

Recently got a DVI monitor is it worth getting a DVi enabled graphics card would i notice any difference ?

Dont want to spend too much around £50 ish i should get something good for that price ?

PS Is there anything on Amazon any good as ive got some gift vochers.

[ohood]

For that money, you prolly wouldn't get anything that's much good, what card to you have at the moment?

[raymondlin]

£50 can get you a ATI card, for 2D it'll be perfectly fine.

[chunnychun]

Recently got a DVI monitor is it worth getting a DVi enabled graphics card would i notice any difference ?

Dont want to spend too much around £50 ish i should get something good for that price ?

PS Is there anything on Amazon any good as ive got some gift vochers.
I think DVI is supposed to be better than the standard VGA conntetion but cant be sure. One thing is that the DVI connection is on loads of graphics cards now and I dont mean just the top end ones :thumbs:

[f1buffyfan]

I wouldnt recomend spending any additional money. I recently upgraded my monitor to a nice tft, and got a dvi and old style cable to go with it. Didnt notice any change AT ALL in image quality when using the old style cable or DVI cable. This was when i swapped cable while playing back a movie.

Could you borrow a friends or something just to check it out?

(using a raedon 9800 pro)

[scaramanga]

My GeForce Ti4400 has one and thats a wrinkly in the grahics card world.

[deanos]

My current card is a Ti4600 plays all the latest games perfectly well at the moment just thought it might be worth getting DVI.

[ic]

In Windows, you will notice the difference, guaranteed*! I have an ATI Radeon 7500 which I bought for £50 1 1/2 years ago - compared with when I switch to analogue, the picture is stunning, so sharp and bright.

* this is not a guarantee

[cjb110]

how come you have 4600 without dvi??? I didn't think they existed! as the nvidia reference was analogue + dvi.

DVI is supposed to make more of a difference on TFT's because it keeps the entire signal path digital.

[finlab]

my ti 4200 has a dvi. Are you sure your 4600 doesnt have one?

[hookbeak]

I have a radeon 9800pro at home on DVI with my 20" tft and run 2x Sony 17" TFTs at work from analog on a matrox card and there is no difference at all in quality between the two.

[Radiohead]

DVI is a big jump in image quality from VGA IMO. £50 will easily get you something like a Ti4400/4600. Still good cards.

I've used about 10 TFT's and can always see whether it's DVI or VGA.

[deanos]

Just checked it a Ti4200 , came with my Medion PC has twin VGA.

[deanos]

Got some more gift vouchers so is this any good ?

Direct Affiliate Link (http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/ASIN/B0000X5QOW/thedvdforums-21)

[adam.mt]

The card you mention is 'okay', the PRO version is better though (about the same price but in 128MB form - 256MB is unnecessary/useless in a card of this grade, bar dodgy bragging rights!).

I'd pay the extra though for a Radeon 9800 Pro 128MB which is a very good card for the money.

BTW, the difference in picture quality between DVI and analogue isn't that huge (on a decent TFT monitor; only older designs showed that much of a difference). In many cases you'd be hard pushed to spot a difference at all! Thus, IMO I wouldn't bother changing your graphics card just for DVI. Only bother when it doesn't play the games you want to play, because then you can consider DVI as an 'added bonus' (since it's EXTREMELY UNLIKELY to justify a £50+ outlay).

[deanos]

Thanks for the info, ive decided to upgrade anyways as ive started to play more games (just got Doom3) and want to play them in all there glory :)

EDIT: just look on Amazon its an extra £30 for the PRO version thats nearly 50% more than the 9600, blummin confusing these graphics cards, anybody know the equivilant Nvidia card to the 9600's :thinking:

[cjb110]

urm no, and you don't want to know.

The 9600's (and if you can afford it the 9800's) are the better cards in pretty much every respect.