gpu and displayport to vga help

[Vexsilver]

I have a sapphire radeon 7870 and i'm using the dvi and hdmi on it,(one going to my tv and the other my wacom tablet) but i always want to use the display port to connect my monitor .

The way i have my monitor set up is that it's a vga from the monitor to a vga plugged in a dvi converter, so my question is: what kinda of display port to dvi would I need? I see alot that say Not Bidirectional so i'm assuming it only sends signal one way but what would I look for if i'm putting the display port from my gpu to the dvi end of my monitor cable?

 

[giantbucket]

no.

use one of the DVI outputs to go to the VGA (the DVI that has the 4-pin output), and use a DisplayPort to DVI adaptor to connect to a DVI monitor/screen/etc. you can't easily go from DisplayPort to VGA since one is purely digital and the other is purely analog - you'd need a dedicated expensive converter. kind of like the one that's already inside the card for that one DVI output.