Looking for confirmation for what I suspect. I have a mb w/ DVI-D dual link output. is there a cheap passive adapter that can successfully give me a vga signal for an older monitor?

Simple question, yet oddly hard to google: Do they add any latency? Would performance be better than a DVI-D to VGA adapter? I know they have to have a DAC because DP doesn't natively output analogue.

It’s fairly easy to create VGA with an FPGA using a simple R/2R DAC. As [Mike] points out, this requires a lot of IO pins, and many development boards only support 8 bit VGA. Analog VGA is being ...