VGA Drawbacks

[Nicolas]

So, I'm going to do a build , I'm just waiting for all my parts to get here, and instead of buying a new monitor I found an old full HD monitor laying around at my place, so I decided I was going to use that one, but it only has a VGA connector, no DVI, no HDMI, so I guess I'm just going to get an adapter form DVI to VGA, but I want to know if there would be any major drawbacks? Cause it's still going to be a DVI cable, I don't expect that to have no difference, but is there going to be any major differences?

[LAwLz]

DVI actually carries both an analog and digital signal (at least the DVI which works with DVA->VGA connectors does). So when you plug in the DVI cable with a VGA connector, you are actually running VGA over the DVI cable. The drawbacks will be exactly the same as with a regular VGA cable, such as you might get interference, lower bandwidth, the analog to digital conversion inside the monitor might not be the best and therefore result in slightly worse picture quality, and stuff like that.

Not sure if I'd call those major drawbacks. I mean, a monitor that doesn't have any digital input will most likely not be that great to begin with, so a minor decrease in image quality will probably not even be noticeable.

[Nicolas]

Oh well, that doesn't sound so bad, and I'm saving money, so I guess in the future I'll buy another monitor and this will be my secondary screen, but for now it's not really a big deal

[beldeabogdan]

I have a monitor that has both VGA and DVI, and i can say I see very little difference in picture quality.

[Forza-x73]

I picked up a monitor from a friend that's 1440x900 DVI over my old 1280x1024 VGA, and I see no difference in picture quallity, in fact the VGA looks better because it's an LCD witch gives better blacks, so the LED monitor looks all grey and sh*t...

[Nicolas]

Well yeah I've used it a bit and I really don't see any deal breakers, actually I haven't noticed a bad thing so far (keep in mind that I only played minecraft and watched a couple youtube videos because I'm testing it on another PC)