DVI-D to VGA?

I need a bit of help, just bought a nice spanking HIS 6950.

I have 2 24" acer VGA only monitors. My problem is that the card appears to only have one DVI-I and one DVI-D. It also has an HDMI and 2 smaller ports I am not familiar with.

I previously had my monitors connected with VGA > DVI converters to DVI ports and this worked fine however these converters don't fit into the DVI-D port. I understand that the DVI-D port is digital only and I need some sort of box to convert the signals. so far the only box I have found is £90 and when its going to cost that much i might as well go buy a new DVI/HDMI monitor.

Need some advice please!!! :)

<removed> - looks like you only have the expensive option :/

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As for the other port - i think it's a displayport

Hve you considered buying a cheap graphics card and using its VGA output for your second monitor?

I did not...

Instead I went out and bought another monitor.

Not entirely happy with it so may return it anyway. It's supposed to be a 24" however I noticed when i got it back that the native res was 1920 x 1080 which is less than my older 24"s 1920 x 1200.

Anyway, side by side the older monitor its quite a lot bigger than this one so I don't think I will keep it. Will have to ring the shop tomorrow and see if they will take a return and maybe pick up a PCI graphics card.

Then again, the colour is so much better on the new one!

Might have to sell both the old 24's and get another one of these iiyamas.

Right, does anybody have a cheap PCI graphics card they want to sell?

hummm, how well will a PCI card handle windows 7's Areo interface thought?

You have to pay a premium for 1920x1200 nowadays as the 1080p panels are created in considerable quantities for TVs. The best bang-for-buck is at 1920x1080

A PCI card should handle aero fine as long as it conforms to :

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a DirectX 9 compatible graphics processor with a Windows Display Driver Model (WDDM) driver, Pixel shader 2.0 in hardware, and a minimum of 128 MB of Video RAM

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Hang on, if you're getting another new monitor, couldn't you feed them both with DVI? Or both with DisplayPort? Then no need for secondary card?