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Bought a new monitor....questions regarding HDMI vs DVI and ext.P/S
Just bought a monitor and pulled it out of the box to find 2 unexpected things. I'm not a geek so lets not get into my ineptness in not checking for this. But my card has HDMI and DVI inputs, no VGA. My cable is DVI and the new one came with only a VGA cable and only VGA and HDMI outputs. I read that with HDMI you cannot choose the resolution you want, it detects and uses what it wants. Is this true? Also, what would the disadvantages be besides that be if i went out and bought a HDMI cable instead of returning the monitor?
Also, i never had a monitor that uses a external power supply. What are the disadvantages of that is any? Is this something they do because of the LED vs LCD or what?