Windows 7 - So Long And Thanks For All The Fish, VGA/DVI

Brink · 01-20-2012

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Alas, poor VGA and DVI; we knew ye well. If those increasingly obsolete connection technologies hold a place near and dear to your heart, you might want to make it a point of going out and picking up a laptop or desktop sometime soon. It's looking like five years from now, DVI and VGA ports will join dinosaurs, VCRs and the Dodo in the pages of the history books, smothered by the more widespread HDMI and DisplayPort interfaces.

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FuturDreamz · 01-21-2012

Five years is still many hardware generations away.

WolfSoul · 01-21-2012

From what I heard DVI has same qualities/properties as HDMI so why would they do that

ionbasa · 01-21-2012

Quote: Originally Posted by WolfSoul

From what I heard DVI has same qualities/properties as HDMI so why would they do that

HDMI is a smaller connector, would you rather have 3+ HDMI/ Diplay ports on your GPU, or be limited to 2 DVI ports for multi-monitor setups.

seekermeister · 01-21-2012

What I don't understand is that it talks about Intel and AMD support for the interfaces, when I seem that it would be Nvidia and AMD/ATI, since it is regarding the video cards, rather than the CPUs. If you plugged a video card with DVI interfaces into a system with one of those processors...after their support lapsed, wouldn't they still work?

ionbasa · 01-21-2012

Quote: Originally Posted by seekermeister

What I don't understand is that it talks about Intel and AMD support for the interfaces, when I seem that it would be Nvidia and AMD/ATI, since it is regarding the video cards, rather than the CPUs. If you plugged a video card with DVI interfaces into a system with one of those processors...after their support lapsed, wouldn't they still work?

Yes they would, but that GPU would most likely be outdated as by that time the standards would have changed. Also the support would still be there though as the graphics card would be using PCIE. The reason they bring up Intel is because of its integrated GPU on CPU die-are.

alphanumeric · 01-24-2012

Quote: Originally Posted by ionbasa

Quote: Originally Posted by WolfSoul

From what I heard DVI has same qualities/properties as HDMI so why would they do that

HDMI is a smaller connector, would you rather have 3+ HDMI/ Diplay ports on your GPU, or be limited to 2 DVI ports for multi-monitor setups.

Isn't HDMI Video and Audio while DVI is only Video?

kado897 · 01-24-2012

Digital Visual Interface - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

HDMI - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

There you go.

WolfSoul · 01-24-2012

Yes it's no audio but for the rest it's supposed to be the same (well actually besides the network capaicty the new HDMI has)

msdos622wasfun · 01-26-2012

What's strange for me is the fact that I just put together an Eyefinity setup with my current rig, and I had to use multiple DVI ports to accomplish this (along with a Mini DisplayPort adapter). Because I previously connected my single monitor with an HDMI cable, I kept thinking, "I'm not going backwards, am I?" But quite frankly, the image quality looks the same to me.