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Any motherboard with onboard DVI video?
A friend wants me to build him a new system. He doesn't want to buy a
PCI Express display card since his video needs are very basic (no games or graphics editing). But wants to be able to use the DVI connection on his monitor. I'm having no luck finding an Intel-based board with video out other than regular VGA D-sub. Does one with DVI out even exist? Of course, I'm guessing if it does it would probably cost more than a reasonably priced motherboard AND video card with DVI out. Thanks for your help. Larc §§§ - Change planet to earth to reply by email - §§§ |
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Any motherboard with onboard DVI video?
Sure.
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16813121094 http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16813121316 http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16813121316 They are all DDR2, Socket 775 boards. The first one uses the Q35 chipset, while the second two use the G33. I have no personal experience with them. The cost savings over an inexpensive mainboard using an Intel chipset of similar vintage (P35) and a cheapish discrete PCIE16X graphics card ($50) are minimal, although the integrated graphics solution can be a little less. Unless the performance of onboard graphics has improved a lot since the ones I've seen, I recommend the discrete solution. (What OS? If it's Vista, the 3D performance may matter if he wishes to use the Aero Glass interface.) HTH. Return address scrambled. Replace nkbob with bobkn. "Larc" wrote in message ... A friend wants me to build him a new system. He doesn't want to buy a PCI Express display card since his video needs are very basic (no games or graphics editing). But wants to be able to use the DVI connection on his monitor. I'm having no luck finding an Intel-based board with video out other than regular VGA D-sub. Does one with DVI out even exist? Of course, I'm guessing if it does it would probably cost more than a reasonably priced motherboard AND video card with DVI out. Thanks for your help. Larc §§§ - Change planet to earth to reply by email - §§§ |
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Any motherboard with onboard DVI video?
Hello Larc:
I recently built a new pc with an Intel motherboard and used an inexpensive add2 PCIE card available from Intel. It utilizes the onboard graphics from Intel and allows you to use either one or 2 Monitors with independent resolution thru DVI-D connections. I believe the add2 card I purchased from Intel was $23.00 + shipping. They have a single DVI output add2 card for only $13. The Intel graphics on recent boards has improved greatly although I still wouldn't recommend them for those who do a lot of gaming with the recent games out. The video picture is as good as or better than I got when I was using a 7600GT Nvidia PCIE card and it runs flawlessly unlike the Nvidia card with Vista drivers that I had before. You should probably use an E4500 or better cpu for best results. Any Intel m-board with the G965 chipset or higher will produce the best results. According to Intel the G965 chipset or higher will even support HD displays. I'm using the DG965WH board that costs around $100 and offers many media features. I had the Comcast man at my home for a cablebox install and when he saw the picture on the monitor he immediately said "Wow......you have a great picture on your monitor", so I guess the add2 card would satisfy most people. To order it go to the Intel sight, then to the Intel store and search for "add2 cards". newnerd Larc wrote: A friend wants me to build him a new system. He doesn't want to buy a PCI Express display card since his video needs are very basic (no games or graphics editing). But wants to be able to use the DVI connection on his monitor. I'm having no luck finding an Intel-based board with video out other than regular VGA D-sub. Does one with DVI out even exist? Of course, I'm guessing if it does it would probably cost more than a reasonably priced motherboard AND video card with DVI out. Thanks for your help. Larc ��� - Change planet to earth to reply by email - ��� |
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I forgot to mention that the add2 card and Intel onboard graphics work
just fine on my computer with Vista Ultimate 64-bit and the 32-bit version before I switched to the 64-bit. The Vista rating for the graphics is 3.8. It was 4.9 when I used the PCIE Nvidia card but the system was not stable and with the Intel onboard graphics it runs flawlessly. I tried everything to get the Nvidia card to work better but even with their latest graphics drivers it was subject to occasional freezes and in the last 2 months I've had no stability problems with the Intel graphics driver using the add2 card. newnerd |
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Any motherboard with onboard DVI video?
On Tue, 1 Jan 2008 12:25:37 -0500, "Bob Knowlden"
wrote: Sure. http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16813121094 http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16813121316 http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16813121316 They are all DDR2, Socket 775 boards. The first one uses the Q35 chipset, while the second two use the G33. I have no personal experience with them. The cost savings over an inexpensive mainboard using an Intel chipset of similar vintage (P35) and a cheapish discrete PCIE16X graphics card ($50) are minimal, although the integrated graphics solution can be a little less. Unless the performance of onboard graphics has improved a lot since the ones I've seen, I recommend the discrete solution. (What OS? If it's Vista, the 3D performance may matter if he wishes to use the Aero Glass interface.) Thanks very much, Bob. I think the BLKDG33TLM will be OK if he can live without a floppy. The OS will be XP SP2, so no super video demands there. Happy New Year! Larc §§§ - Change planet to earth to reply by email - §§§ |
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Any motherboard with onboard DVI video?
In alt.comp.hardware.pc-homebuilt Larc wrote:
A friend wants me to build him a new system. He doesn't want to buy a PCI Express display card since his video needs are very basic (no games or graphics editing). But wants to be able to use the DVI connection on his monitor. I'm having no luck finding an Intel-based board with video out other than regular VGA D-sub. Does one with DVI out even exist? Of course, I'm guessing if it does it would probably cost more than a reasonably priced motherboard AND video card with DVI out. Thanks for your help. Having just tried using the DVI connector (and paying considerable extra for the cable!) I very hurriedly went BACK to my VGA connector for the same display! With the DVI connector, the card (actually SEVERAL cards) couldn't sense that I had a wide-screen LCD display like the VGA connector would; and forced me to use 1600x1200 as "default"; which made the display look *terrible* in comparison to the incredibly sharp (and accurate) display when running at native 1680x1050 resolution on the VGA connector. Forget the DVI connector for the computer. Use it for connecting a DVD player or TV. -- _____ / ' / â„¢ ,-/-, __ __. ____ /_ (_/ / (_(_/|_/ / _/ _ |
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On Jan 1, 11:27 am, Larc wrote:
On Tue, 1 Jan 2008 12:25:37 -0500, "Bob Knowlden" wrote: Sure. http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16813121094 http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16813121316 http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16813121316 They are all DDR2, Socket 775 boards. The first one uses the Q35 chipset, while the second two use the G33. I have no personal experience with them.. The cost savings over an inexpensive mainboard using an Intel chipset of similar vintage (P35) and a cheapish discrete PCIE16X graphics card ($50) are minimal, although the integrated graphics solution can be a little less. Unless the performance of onboard graphics has improved a lot since the ones I've seen, I recommend the discrete solution. (What OS? If it's Vista, the 3D performance may matter if he wishes to use the Aero Glass interface.) Thanks very much, Bob. I think the BLKDG33TLM will be OK if he can live without a floppy. The OS will be XP SP2, so no super video demands there. Happy New Year! Larc §§§ - Change planet to earth to reply by email - §§§ You may have problems installing XP on that board with out a floppy drive and there are very few external floppy drives for sale that will work with built-in drivers for external floppy drives. I think the board you selected is mainly designed for use with Vista although it will work with XP if you can figure out how to "load additional drivers" without a floppy since XP doesn't support anything but a floppy for that purpose. I found 2 external floppy drives that will work for an XP install.......one for about $75 and another only available thru Amazon.com from the original owner(a risky purchase?). To install XP I think you will find it better to use a board supporting a standard floppy drive. If you google "external floppy drive for XP install you'll find hundreds of posts of people who had problems installing XP due to the requirement for a floppy drive. With Vista you can use a floppy, cd or usb drive to load drivers during the O.S. install . newnerd |
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On Tue, 01 Jan 2008 12:36:47 -0600, Frank McCoy
wrote: In alt.comp.hardware.pc-homebuilt Larc wrote: A friend wants me to build him a new system. He doesn't want to buy a PCI Express display card since his video needs are very basic (no games or graphics editing). But wants to be able to use the DVI connection on his monitor. I'm having no luck finding an Intel-based board with video out other than regular VGA D-sub. Does one with DVI out even exist? Of course, I'm guessing if it does it would probably cost more than a reasonably priced motherboard AND video card with DVI out. Thanks for your help. Having just tried using the DVI connector (and paying considerable extra for the cable!) I very hurriedly went BACK to my VGA connector for the same display! With the DVI connector, the card (actually SEVERAL cards) couldn't sense that I had a wide-screen LCD display like the VGA connector would; and forced me to use 1600x1200 as "default"; which made the display look *terrible* in comparison to the incredibly sharp (and accurate) display when running at native 1680x1050 resolution on the VGA connector. That's a problem I don't anticipate since the monitor that will be used is a 19" 4:3 that has 1280x1024 as its native resolution. It's an NEC less than a year old, so I doubt it would get updated by a friend in his 70s I'll be building the computer for. Happy New Year! Larc §§§ - Change planet to earth to reply by email - §§§ |
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