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Well, my GPU died the other day. Was using a Sapphire HD6870 since 2011 without any issues, but it started malfunctioning through the week, and after three consecutive power outages in one morning started displaying vertical blue bars on the screen. Ended up buying a new one on saturday and when I tried to install it I realized this card had a DVI-D slot instead of DVI-I (why DVI-D exists when DVI-I only has 4 more pins so the production cost difference is negligible and it's capable of every possible combination of pins is anyone's guess) so I had to wait until monday to get a new cable. Just finished installing that, but on the plus side now I'm using a XFX Rx 580 instead and the 7 extra GB of video memory help quite a bit.
Monday, 22-May-17 15:28:20 UTC from web-
@nerthos DVI-I needs the gpu to do analog output, later cards all have dumped any analog out, like my 290 having 4 different digital out, so I need a dp->vga ad converter (not just a dongle) for atleast 1 of my monitors
most motherboards still carry a vga out I think, so if you really need to plug one in and you don't have a converter, that's on option-
@shpuld IF you're going to use the analog output. However you can just fit a DVI-I slot and not connect the analog pins to the GPU, still allowing for the wire to go in without those slots actually doing anything. IMO standarization like that is the most practical option since you can use the same slot and wire for any DVI device. Like phone jacks, which use a standard design despite only connecting two of the pins.
Monday, 22-May-17 15:35:04 UTC from web
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