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Ok i have a question, i bought two monitors for my build, all i have is a dvi cable for my main monitor i wil use for gaming, and i have a dsub cable for my other monitor which will have team speak and youtube or whatever else up, but my video card does not have a dsub connector on it, so can i plug my second monitor in to my motherboard while my main monitor is plugged in to my video card and have them work? or will i need to buy a dvi to dsub adapter or buy another dvi cable and plug my second monitor in to my video card 

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No. You should get one of those adapters.

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Buy another DVI cable or buy the adapter
And I do not think you can plug the monitor into the motherboard

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Ok i have a question, i bought two monitors for my build, all i have is a dvi cable for my main monitor i wil use for gaming, and i have a dsub cable for my other monitor which will have team speak and youtube or whatever else up, but my video card does not have a dsub connector on it, so can i plug my second monitor in to my motherboard while my main monitor is plugged in to my video card and have them work? or will i need to buy a dvi to dsub adapter or buy another dvi cable and plug my second monitor in to my video card 

There might be someway to make that work but i would think it would be alot easier to just buy another dvi cable, plus then you can use your graphics card to identify it

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ok thanks guys i will just wait for the weekend and pick up a dvi cable from best buy or something.

 

one other question is the connector on the monitor is DVI-D can i use the DVI-I connector on my video card going to the monitor? i need the DVI-D port on my video card for my korean monitor and i only have the one DVI-D port on the card

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your gpu should have or will come with the adapter in most cases

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If you have integrated graphics from either the motherboard or cpu, you can use that to drive the other display by connecting it to the motherboard rear i/o.

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ASUS GeForce GTX 780 OC DirectCU II 941MHZ 3GB 6.0GHZ GDDR5 2xDVI HDMI DisplayPort PCI-E Video Card is what i got, and i need to plug a dsub into it

did it come with one in the box that is where it should have been

EDIT: looked up the specs it does not come with one apparently guess you will just have to order they should not be to expensive

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did it come with one in the box that is where it should have been

EDIT: looked up the specs it does not come with one apparently guess you will just have to order they should not be to expensive

yeah ill just run over to best buy or something even though its like 3 times more expensive than ordering one i wont have to wait two weeks lol

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