Considering it performs better than my $60 double-shielded BNC-HD15 cable from Markertek, you should be fine with it. Since this one is a little bit better, I think I will just keep it.Īlso, I don't think you have to worry about this cable ghosting with your monitor. My next monitor might use BNC as well and I would rather not buy another cable or continue using the adapter. Depends on how long you have to return it to the company though. View image: /infopop/emoticons/icon_frown.gifĬould i maybe rent the cable from ya for a week to see if it ghosts on my monitor? if it doesn't i'll buy it outright for what you paid? If not send it back to you covering your shipping costs to me. On the Gainward Ti4600 there is no VGA it just has dual DVI. How is the monitor when it's hooked up to the straight VGA? You've never mentioned that BNC, of course, can theoretically beat them both. In theory, DVI-A or DVI-I in analog mode can carry higher-fidelity signals than can HD15. Maybe they can be, though.Īnd about DVI-A/I: the analog portion of these connectors does in fact have a higher design-specified bandwidth than HD15. It's true that PnP does not work with BNC cables, but as far as I know, PnP-type signals are not used for power management. But some video controllers (my Radeon 64 DDR VIVO included) only implement one of the permutations (so my monitor only uses one of the three possible power saving modes). You can get three different power-saving modes this way (H, V, H&V).
Some monitors (my IBM P260 included) have different power saving modes that happen, depending on which sync signal(s) are stopped. Monitor sees no more sync signal(s), interprets this as a cue to go to power-saving mode(s). Usually it's done by stopping the sync signal(s). Windows tells video controller to turn off monitor.
I will definitely let everyone know my results either tonight or tomorrow morning with the BNC-DVI cable. Maybe my experience is due to my monitor or some other factor, but it would seem that having BNC on the monitor side is better than HD15, even if it is HD15 on the video card side. I promptly sent the HD15 cable back and am still using my BNC cable with that adapter that Gainward provides there is still ghosting, but not as bad as when I tried the HD15 cable in hopes of clearing up the ghosting. The BNC cable had significantly less ghosting than the HD15 cable. I compared a Bettercables HD15-HD15 cable to my BNC-HD15 cable that I currently use. We both have different monitors, video cards, and IIRC, OSs, and we had the same results of no plug and play, so I think it's safe to say that plug is disabled with their cable.Īlso BNC is only better if you use BNC connectors on both sides. Well, I never got plug and play with their VGA cable and you didn't either. Either way, I'll find out tonight because the cable should get here today. I think it's probably DVI-I, since it uses the adapter, but you can tell me if I'm wrong. Looking at my card plugged in, however, those 4 pins/cross are on the left side of the 24 pins in a row. I have three rows of 8 pins and then on one side there is a cross with four pins, one in each corner. If it isn't there you don't have the analog pins You can tell by the little t shaped connecor off to the right side.