Video card jacks

I ahve a Nvidea GForce 5200 video card. There are two jacks on the card. One fits to my monitor's plug and the other doesn't fit the monitor plug. What is the second jack for? Can I somehoew use this jack for my monitor? I am asking because the monitor plug blocks my Wifi antenna.

 

The other is a DVI connection. If your monitor does not have a DVI input, then you would need a DVI to VGA adapter. That being said, analog (VGA) seems to be preferable to digital (DVI).

 

Generally a jack refers to a elongated connector which is held in a socket by a clip. A VGA or DVI connector (which is what those connectors are) are generally referred to as plugs and sockets - or if you want to be really technical D-Sub Assemblies.

Depending on the kind of cable your monitor has, you are using either the VGA or DVI socket on your video card. The DVI socket has square shaped holes for pins, and is much wider than the VGA socket which has round pin holes and is somewhat narrorwer (just about an inch wide).

You can purchase DVI to VGA and VGA to DVI convertors, if you really need them. However I would suggest that you move your WiFi card to another slot which doesn't have this problem

Two things :
1. How do you know the poster is using the VGA socket? They could be using the DVI socket!
2. Digital signals are lossless in transmission and can handle higher resolutions and has greater stability and eliminates problems such as cable crosstalk and clipping - and is an optimum choice for LCD or plasma screens.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DVI

So to say VGA is preferable is pretty unfounded, considering you don't know what kind of display the poster is using.

 

... having said that if the monitor accepts only VGA connections, using a DVI to VGA converter only to have it converted back again inside the monitor is pretty pointless. But that still depends on the assumption that the VGA connector is being used.

 

I made an assmption that he was using the VGA socket because that is the one "most" people use and recognize. As for saying that VGA was preferable to DVI, it was a typo that I didn't catch until now, thanks for correcting me.

 

No problem

The thing is fewer and fewer new PCs are being sold with CRT based monitors - so the number of monitors using DVI are increasing. So you never can tell