Monitor Connection

[karljay]

Dont beleive this !!! Thanks guys for the earlier advice.
Well been on all afternoon and everything looked great on my new build
Connected power, mouse, Keyboard, printer then went to connect the monitor and Wham !! Nothing to connect to. The monitor has a fifteen female pin socket as have all my previous moniters have had. But the rear panel on my PC only has a parallel printer port and a nine male pin DIN connector. What the hell do I connect my monitor to ??

 

[DaveSimmons]

What is your motherboard brand / model?

Many full-size motherboards do not have onboard video, you need a video card plugged into a PCI-E slot for them.

 

[karljay]

Hi Dave I think your right mate
My MB is an MSI 925X Neo platinum and I cannot see anything on the box stating Video.

 

[DaveSimmons]

Is this for gaming or general use? XP or Vista?

For general use:
nvidia 7200GS - $30 shipped - Zotac
ATI x1300 - $32 shipped - Sapphire

nvidia 8400gs = $42 shipped ECS
ATI x2400xt = $50 shipped saphire

For gaming, set a budget (under $100 = 8800GS, ~$175 = ATI 4850)

 

[karljay]

Hi Dave I may do a little gaming on it but mostly general use. O/S XP Home as i've heard too many moans about Vista

 

[TridenT]

Be sure to check the motherboard to see if it has a PCI-E slot. It would be tragic to buy a nice video card and then find out your motherboard doesn't have it.

 

[DaveSimmons]

Hardware Zone says:
1 x PCI Express x16 slot (supports PCI Express Bus specification v1.0a compliant)

We'll need to know what games you want to play and at what screen size before we can recommend the right video card -- there is a $50-200 price range for low to midrange cards.

 

[0roo0roo]

Originally posted by: karljay
Hi Dave I may do a little gaming on it but mostly general use. O/S XP Home as i've heard too many moans about Vista

theres nothing wrong with vista these days.

but you know how it is...user forgets to buy video card, blames vista etc

 

[kevinthenerd]

I say you plug in an Okidata dot matrix into the parallel port and do it the old fashioned way.

but yeah, you need a card :beer: