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The Cabl3 Guy
Elite Ranger
in Zocalo v2.0
Yeah so I bought this LCD monitor and it came with no DVI cable. I go out and buy one & it looks like there are too many pins on the cable for the monitor. But it fits the mac just fine. If I break the pins off from that one area will its still work?
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I think that just about makes everyone confused as hell. Basically, if the Mac doesn't put out any signal through those particular pins, you're a ok. But if the mac actually pushes something through those and your monitor doesn't receive them since you've broken the pins, you're screwed. Or at least the picture is.
On the other hand, if the cable doesn't cost a fortune, give it a go. :p
[B]Well, if the cable fits fine on your Mac and your display is lacking a few points, I seriously don't think it'll work.
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I think that just about makes everyone confused as hell. Basically, if the Mac doesn't put out any signal through those particular pins, you're a ok. But if the mac actually pushes something through those and your monitor doesn't receive them since you've broken the pins, you're screwed. Or at least the picture is.
On the other hand, if the cable doesn't cost a fortune, give it a go. :p [/B][/QUOTE]
That's when the alternative time line comes to work!
Now just to build that machine to travel between alternative realities..
(speaking of which, the Crossover 3 part arc on Ultimate Fantastic Four was wacky!)
[B]So what your saying, basically, is that in this alternative timeline, there are no pins? [/B][/QUOTE]
Well, that is one alternative. But I was aiming for the more literal, and possible one.. Where he did not remove those pins.
And mind you, this is no Matrix. The spoon is quite there you see?
*sphling*
Also, I've never seen a monitor that didn't come with a DVI cable...wierd.
It fits in the mac perfectly not the monitor.
The model of the monitor didn't even come up either...It does have a vga port though which i can use on the MAC. Don't want to...Is the quality much different?
I've been looking at the ViewSonic E90fb and the G90fb, but the only differences I can understand are the $2 price difference and the fact that the E90's max resolution is a bit lower than the G90's -- though I'd probably stick to 1024x768.
I'm on a busted up FD Trinitron my employer was going to throw out with a bunch of other junk (I also picked up a G3), but the screen is screwed up.
I don't plan on going the LCD route. I can't figure out what a good contrast ratio is, and I've heard that CRTs are better with color. LCDs are also more expensive than good CRTs as far as I can tell. They're big, but that isn't a problem for me right now.
Any recommendations and places to buy said recommendations?
[B]Viewsonic has an LCD monitor with a 3-5ms response time, but it's expensive.
I don't plan on going the LCD route. I can't figure out what a good contrast ratio is, and I've heard that CRTs are better with color. LCDs are also more expensive than good CRTs as far as I can tell. They're big, but that isn't a problem for me right now. [/B][/QUOTE]
CRTs are only better with color than LCDs if the LCD uses six bit sub-pixels. This only gives you the equivalent of 18 bit color and they try and use blending to make the full 24 bit spectrum.
An LCD with 8 bit sub-pixels should give just as good color representation as a CRT.
With response time you really have to dig and try and find the gray to gray measurment. Advertised times are usually TrTf which sarts at one end of the spectrum and goes all the way to the end and back again. this does not take as much presision and so goes faster, however, most color transitions are not black to white to black, they are somewhere in between to somewhere in between.I think i read somewhere on anandtech.com that less than 20 ms g2g will be sufficient for high end gaming.
The problem of course being that an 8 bit display with a < 20ms Gray2Gray is going to be
a. very hard to find
b. very expensive.
Also, CRTs have stopped being improved. They are now stuck at the tech level they've been at for a couple of years becuase all new development is going toward LCDs, Plasmas, DLPs, and new tech types.
[B]CRTs actually do have better colour than LCDs in some cases; namely representing black. :) [/B][/QUOTE]
Thats very true, i did forget that detail. Though i have been evaluating some LCDs at work with very respectable black
Iogear and D-Link seem to have some good models. Anyone have any other recomendations?