I have a graphics card with a VGA and DVI-I Dual-Link ports but my monitor/screen only supports HDMI. I've searched over the Web about pictures and I got a lot of images of DVI to HDMI adapters but I am not sure how reliable they are or if it will work.

There are shops in my location that sell DVI-D to HDMI cables/adapter and I doubt that it will work since they don't offer testing. You need to buy them before testing.

I am planning to upgrade my graphics card so I don't want to buy expensive converters.

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I have been using converters and combined cables (all of the above) back and forth (for computer monitors and for televisions) -- they work very effectively. The real difference is that the HDMI cables can include audio, but DVI cannot so connecting the two will filter out audio to the DVI end.

One piece of advice however, don't get extremely long HDMI cables as the signal only goes so far and you will need to also purchase a signal booster if you do.

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Pretty sure DVI doesn't support audio, so if you're trying to get audio across you might be out of luck, but otherwise HDMI can be thought of as a superset of DVI in many ways, and is designed to support interoperability with DVI.

In summary, yes, a DVI->HDMI cable should work just fine. I've used them in the past for my PC and they've worked just fine.

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