This is a female dvi to male vga adapter. Mostly used if you only have a vga cord for your monitor and your graphics card only accepts a dvi connection.
correction it is actually a female vga to male dvi I apologize I was a bit groggy upon writing this. Heres a clearer picture of it in a different color for clarification. http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/412zPg8RIkL.jpg
hey can you please look at the dvi end and tell me if the one flat pin has four pins around it just to make sure before i place the bid for gin please let me know asap