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Refresh Rate
Customers have generally positive feedback regarding the adapter's ability to support high refresh rates, with some reporting successful use of 120/165Hz and even higher resolutions, while others mention limitations in achieving maximum refresh rates at certain resolutions.
Compatibility With Crt Monitors
Customers have overwhelmingly positive opinions about the adapter's compatibility with CRT monitors, allowing them to connect modern digital graphics cards to their old VGA CRT displays and achieve high refresh rates without any significant input delay or functional differences compared to more expensive alternatives.
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Max Resolution Support
Customers have positive feedback regarding the adapter's ability to support high resolutions such as 1600x1200 @ 85Hz, although some encountered issues with achieving this resolution due to recent internal changes made by the manufacturer. The adapter also has good contrast and is suitable for gaming and retro displays. However, there are conflicting reports on the current support for high resolutions.
Highlights
Quality
Excellent dac adapter for modern gpu to analog pc crt monitor users.
Good dac for modern pc gaming on a vga crt monitor.
Shut off your pc, turn on crt, plug vga into adapter, plug adapter into pc, turn on pc and then it should be able to properly d... Read More
I didn't know this when i bought it, but if you plug your monitor into your motherboard's vga port and use your dedicated gpu a... Read More
Competitiveness
I tried a few of these dp or hdmi to vga adapters and so far this one is the best.
With a pixel clock of ~375mhz this is the best vga digital-to-analog converter that's still being sold today.
It also has the best contrast compared to all i've tried, giving distinct blacks and whites all the way from 001 to 254!
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- Our engine has discovered that over 90% high quality reviews are present.
- This product had a total of 82 reviews as of our last analysis date on Aug 23 2024.
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Posted by a reviewer on Amazon
Sadly all of the 400mhz ones are no longer in production
Posted by a reviewer on Amazon
One day after sitting unused for a few months it didnt seem to work anymore but i contacted startech and they had a new one at my door in 2 days
Posted by a reviewer on Amazon
Hard to find companies that stand by their products like that these days
Posted by a reviewer on Amazon
Tldr if you want to drive a vga crt monitor in modern windows
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Windows only shows vesa standard resolutions and 60hz out of the box
Posted by a reviewer on Amazon
I had the specsheet for my monitor so i used this application to add the max resolutionlowest refresh rate and lowest resolutionmax refresh rate as well as some useful ones with in between values
Posted by a reviewer on Amazon
It was able to drive my crt at 1600x120085hz but also deletes scan lines for some reason on lower resolutions
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