With VGA, the analog signal goes from 1 volt, to 0, then immediately back to 1. With DVI the black pixels will get the digital value of 0. It will be most obvious on a one pixel wide vertical black line on a white background. Or is my video card incompatible with DVI?ĭVI can show improvement in fine horizontal detail. Quality but when I connected it, there was noĭifference in picture quality. I orginally hooked it up via VGA and It looksĪmazing. As for picture quality I can't tell any difference between the Dell and the Gateway except that the gateway is a "brighter" monitor with a higher brightness and contrast ratio. If I want to work on a big project using the 24" Gateway on it's G4 I switch the input to VGA instead on the DVI and I can utilize the 24" and 22" widescreens together. I have the G4 hooked to the Dell using the DVI input and I ran the VGA cable to my other G4 running the 24" Gateway.
The Dell has both DVI and VGA connectors.
The widescreens tend to "stretch" the picture width wise. The "widescreens threw me off a little because of their 16.9 ratio as opposed to the old 4.3 ratios. I'm running the 24" and the Dell 1280X720. I have 2 G4's with the same card and I'm running a 24" Gateway Widescreen on one and I just bought a "new" Dell 22" off ebay. I had a rage 128 like yours with just the VGA connector so I replaced it with a "flashed" ATi Radeon 9200 (128 mb). Hello! I can't answer all your questions but I too was concerned about monitors. Sorry for being a dummy, but any help would be appreciated. Are they likely to be plug-and-play if I use the VGA connection? Can I buy Apple's DVI to VGA display adapter and get true digital, or will my card not support this? Correct? Does this result in an inferior picture (worse than a CRT, or just not as wonderful as a DVI)? I can live with CRT quality.ģ. I'm guessing my video card does not support DVI, so I will have to use analog. Both monitors say they have DVI and VGA (HD-15) interfaces. Will the Dell E207WFP (max: 1680 x 1050) leave me with black bands of wasted screen at the top and bottom? I'd prefer to buy this monitor because of the price, but not if it is a waste of screen space.Ģ. If I buy a new monitor, I want to use all the screen area. I use my G4 for page layout: InDesign, Photoshop, Illustrator (not games or viewing DVDs). I'm confused by all the specs, and since Dell is mail order, I don't want to buy the wrong thing. I am thinking of 20-inch monitors, either the Dell E207WFP (max: 1680 x 1050) or the 67% more expensive Ultrasharp 2007FP (max 1600 x 1200). When I look at the monitor settings I have available in System Prefs, the highest is 1600 x 1200. My CRT monitor is dying and I would like to replace it with an LCD monitor. I have an early G4 with an AGP Rage 128 Pro graphics card with 16 Mb VRAM.
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