Connect CPU/Motherboard to normal LCD TV

[deepanshumunjal]

I have a PC and my monitor is an old CRT type VGA display. I want to connect my system Motherboard ports with my LCD TV. Which is the best way to to so because there are multiple ports available which I have no idea about? Here are the pictures of the ports available on my motherboard/PCB. Can I connect both CRT and LCD at the same time through different cables but use only one of them at a time. You can see in picture that a VGA connection is already made through some converter/adapter already plugged in yellow port. There is DVI, HDMI, Display Port, eSATA, a blue port with no name. Please suggest which cables/wires I need to buy to do so to make connections. Thanks for your help )

https://imgur.com/a/6ZJooJZ

 

[DRagor]

What input ports your LCD has would be a valuable information here.

 

[deepanshumunjal]

What input ports your LCD has would be a valuable information here.

I have a picture below of my TV ports:
https://imgur.com/a/q7MQLS6

 

[DRagor]

So your LCD has HDMI and VGA ports. Your GPU seems to have (a picture is not clear enough) DVI and probably HDMI port free. If it does have HDMI port, then simplest solution would be to use straight HDMI cable to connect LCD to GPU (not the motherboard). Unless your GPU is ancient, it should be able to run both monitor and LCD at the same time. However if you only want to run one at a time, then even ancient GPU will do that.
If I see that wrong and that last port on GPU is not HDMI, then you should be able to connect your LCD exactly the same way as you connect your monitor, with the same cable/adapter. If you need to run them both at the same time, you would need to use second DVI port (yellow one), although without knowing what your GPU is I can't say for 100% it will work (some GPUs that had 2 DVI ports had only one DVI-I, the other being DVI-D - in such scenario you could not use it to connect VGA port as DVI-D port lacks analog signal necessary for VGA). But again, if all you need is just one monitor at a time, you should be able to use exactly same cable in same GPU port.

 

[deepanshumunjal]

So your LCD has HDMI and VGA ports. Your GPU seems to have (a picture is not clear enough) DVI and probably HDMI port free. If it does have HDMI port, then simplest solution would be to use straight HDMI cable to connect LCD to GPU (not the motherboard). Unless your GPU is ancient, it should be able to run both monitor and LCD at the same time. However if you only want to run one at a time, then even ancient GPU will do that.
If I see that wrong and that last port on GPU is not HDMI, then you should be able to connect your LCD exactly the same way as you connect your monitor, with the same cable/adapter. If you need to run them both at the same time, you would need to use second DVI port (yellow one), although without knowing what your GPU is I can't say for 100% it will work (some GPUs that had 2 DVI ports had only one DVI-I, the other being DVI-D - in such scenario you could not use it to connect VGA port as DVI-D port lacks analog signal necessary for VGA). But again, if all you need is just one monitor at a time, you should be able to use exactly same cable in same GPU port.

I have a 550ti GPU, but I dont know which port you are talking about? I believe that the yellow port(you say DVI) is actually a 550ti port as I can see inside my cabinet. Other ports above them are Motherboard ports. If this DVI provides VGA output (which is bad, since my LCD is FHD), I want my LCD to work at FHD, can HDMI port besides yellow port provide FHD output(or higher) through 550Ti? Will this work with normal HDMI cable? What is the other scenario if we use motherboard HDMI port, DVI port, a blue port(whats this one about). What are these used for?

Thanks

 

[DRagor]

You should be using your 550ti ports and not motherboard ports for two reasons:
> with GPU installed, on most motherboards the iGPU is disabled, so you can't use motherboard ports - this can be amended by doing proper changes in BIOS, IF your board supports running iGPU along with GPU (not all do).
> connecting monitor to motherboard makes it use iGPU instead of your GPU, so for example playing on such monitor is almost impossible

VGA provides FHD. Actually even more. HDMI also works for that through 550ti. Yes, it will work with plain, simple HDMI cable.
The blue port on motherboard is VGA I think (it definitely looks like one). Generally, all the video outputs on motherboard are only used if the setup does not have dedicated GPU installed.

 

[deepanshumunjal]

You should be using your 550ti ports and not motherboard ports for two reasons:
> with GPU installed, on most motherboards the iGPU is disabled, so you can't use motherboard ports - this can be amended by doing proper changes in BIOS, IF your board supports running iGPU along with GPU (not all do).
> connecting monitor to motherboard makes it use iGPU instead of your GPU, so for example playing on such monitor is almost impossible

VGA provides FHD. Actually even more. HDMI also works for that through 550ti. Yes, it will work with plain, simple HDMI cable.
The blue port on motherboard is VGA I think (it definitely looks like one). Generally, all the video outputs on motherboard are only used if the setup does not have dedicated GPU installed.

Is it dependent on GPU too, whether the output will be FHD/4K/HD only. What does 550ti support?

 

[DRagor]

What does 550ti support?

Straight from NVidia spec table:
2560x1600 through digital port
2048x1536 through VGA

 

[deepanshumunjal]

You should be using your 550ti ports and not motherboard ports for two reasons:
> with GPU installed, on most motherboards the iGPU is disabled, so you can't use motherboard ports - this can be amended by doing proper changes in BIOS, IF your board supports running iGPU along with GPU (not all do).
> connecting monitor to motherboard makes it use iGPU instead of your GPU, so for example playing on such monitor is almost impossible

VGA provides FHD. Actually even more. HDMI also works for that through 550ti. Yes, it will work with plain, simple HDMI cable.
The blue port on motherboard is VGA I think (it definitely looks like one). Generally, all the video outputs on motherboard are only used if the setup does not have dedicated GPU installed.

What does 550ti support?

Straight from NVidia spec table:
2560x1600 through digital port
2048x1536 through VGA

Thanks bro, one last question, I read somewhere online in specs regarding HDMI connectors on 550TI,

Interfaces 2 x DVI-I (dual link)
Mini-HDMI
VGA - with adapter
HDMI - with adapter
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Output Ports (for SD) 2 x DVI, Mini-HDMI
Supported Video Signal DVI, HDMI, VGA
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INTERFACES
Type DVI-I (dual link), HDMI, Mini-HDMI, VGA
Qty 2
Location with adapter
CABLE DETAILS
Type DVI-VGA adapter, mini HDMI-HDMI adapter



Please suggest which cable I need for this, mini hdmi or hdmi?

 

[DRagor]

That totally depends on your 550ti model. Some of them have mini-HDMI, others may have normal HDMI port. Since they differ only in size, obviously I cannot tell by the picture alone which one your card has.

 

[deepanshumunjal]

That totally depends on your 550ti model. Some of them have mini-HDMI, others may have normal HDMI port. Since they differ only in size, obviously I cannot tell by the picture alone which one your card has.

I think that it's mini hdmi because I'm the picture the hdmi on mobo is bigger than 550ti

 

[DRagor]

If that's miniHDMI then there are simple miniHDMI to HDMI cables that you could use, or you can get normal HDMI cable plus miniHDMI male to HDMI female adapter.

 

[deepanshumunjal]

If that's miniHDMI then there are simple miniHDMI to HDMI cables that you could use, or you can get normal HDMI cable plus miniHDMI male to HDMI female adapter.

Hi bro, I want to know if I have two Gpus in future then which one to connect LCD with? Mobo, Gpu1 or 2

 

[DRagor]

Depends. If you have two GPUs that work together (in case of Nvidia cards that requires SLI bridge and of course cards and motherboard that are compatible with SLI) you connect all monitors to main GPU. Otherwise, each card will use it's power only for monitors that are connected to it, so that dictates where you connect each monitor - the one that does the gaming to the strongest GPU, other monitors can be connected to either card.