Hello, /wsr/, tech novice here. Can somebody tell me what should

>>379300
What am I looking at here? What is the device?
>I don't know
Well at least take a picture of the whole thing too.

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>>379300
This connector is called DVI. A female one.
Both your monitor and your graphics card should have one of these female ones.
You plug in one of pic related, which has two male connectors.

>>379310
>>379300
Specifically, that's a DVI-D. This means it's digital-only. If you have a DVI-I (digital+analogue) cable, it won't go in.

http://www.playtool.com/pages/dvicompat/dvi.html

>>379306
Shame on you. OP gave more than enough to go on.

Oh, and if your monitor does not support DVI, you could use a regular VGA cable and a DVI to VGA adapter. Most monitors or graphics cards have these as extras, or you can buy one for like $2 off ebay.

The image quality is worse than using native DVI or adaptered HDMI though. Native DVI is for most purposes equivalent to HDMI without sound.

>>379313
It's clearly not DVI-I, as you can see by looking at it and the picture you posted.

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>>379315
No he can't, because it's DVI-D and doesn't have any analogue pins to convert.

Look, here they are not existing.

>>379313
>never really caught on
It got a new connector and had its name changed to "HDMI".

I hear HDMI is quite popular.

>>379316
I fucked up, I'm sorry, I was just trying to help

>>379317
Oh shit, didn't look at it carefully enough. You are right.
OP should use a normal DVI-D if possible.

Thank you everybody

>>379314
Well everyone's talking about how unpopular DVI is, so is it that surprising not to recognize it?

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>>379358
it just means that OP is an underaged newfag that doesn't recognize standard tech from 10 years ago.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital_Visual_Interface

>>379306
this guy
if you don't know from this please keep out

>>379475
Fuck you asshole. Asking the OP to take a better picture is simply that. Enjoy being elitist over a fucking DVI socket.