[olug] Video output plug question and other questions

Marc Mapes marcmdm2005 at gmail.com
Thu Jun 16 19:53:17 UTC 2011


I have one of the cables laying around somewhere. But pretty much all my
extra stuff is packed up due to the pending flooding.

I know that Army Surplus in Council Bluffs has a ton of them for like $2.00
each brand new. (Thats where I got mine)

Marc

On Thu, Jun 16, 2011 at 2:17 PM, Phil Brutsche <phil at brutsche.us> wrote:

> It's called DMS-59. It's a standardized connector for getting 2 VGA or
> DVI outputs on a single connector on the back panel. It's very common on
> workstation class video cards, ie nVidia Quadro or AMD/ATI FireMV.
>
> It's common to see it on business-grade machines (example: Dell
> OptiPlex) that is equipped from the factory for a dual or quad-output
> video card. It is very, very rare to see it on consumer/enthusiast
> hardware.
>
> On 6/16/2011 11:16 AM, Shawn L. Djernes wrote:
> > I have seen this odd port on several Dell video cards. They came with
> > a Y cable that gave you two VGA or two DVI.
>
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> Phil Brutsche
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