A good VGA cable makes all the difference

By Steven Rosenberg on October 16, 2008 2:00 AM | Permalink | Comments (0) |

I've just finished building a new system, and the video looked terrible. Everything was a little blurry.

I played around with the settings on the monitor itself and in the computer, but nothing seemed to help.

This happened to be a monitor that didn't have a hard-wired VGA cable, meaning it needs a male-to-male VGA cable to connect to the computer's video output.

I had recently purchased the cheapest VGA cable I could find at Fry's because I just wanted to get the system up and running, and that's the cable I was using.

I finally came across a good-quality VGA cable, so I swapped the cheap cable out for the good one.

What a difference. The video finally looked good.

I haven't tried the cheap cable on any other PCs, but for this particular PC and monitor, a good quality (meaning thick and expensive) monitor cable makes all the difference.

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