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New Video Card Required.
« on: 29 January 2010, 19:50:08 »
Allways been an NVidia fan and ended up with an 8800GTX.

But have heard recently that the radeon performance has greatly improved.

I have a new motherboard which will run either card, but seems from what I have read to be optimised for crossfire, whether this means multiple cards I am not quite sure.

Anyways just been looking at the Asus ATI Radeon HD 5770 and Asus HD 5750 @ just over £100 each

At the moment I dont need really high spec for the card but need it for mybedroom to play games on and output to flatscreen TV 1920x1080p so thought would be better by HDMI.

Any thoughts on NVidia Versys Radeon these days.

TIA. :y
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Re: New Video Card Requied.
« Reply #1 on: 29 January 2010, 19:52:27 »
lost track of graphics cards since i got my xbox, got tired of constant updates, last one i bought was a GeForce MX 440  :o

ATi are the daddies these days, you won't need anything special for a TV if your not playing games.

Worth looking at the spec of your TV, even though its 1920x1080, a lot of TV's don't support that via VGA
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« Reply #2 on: 29 January 2010, 19:55:17 »
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Re: New Video Card Requied.
« Reply #3 on: 29 January 2010, 19:56:30 »
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lost track of graphics cards since i got my xbox, got tired of constant updates, last one i bought was a GeForce MX 440  :o That was a long time ago

ATi are the daddies these days, you won't need anything special for a TV if your not playing games.  Did mention I was playing games

Worth looking at the spec of your TV, even though its 1920x1080, a lot of TV's don't support that via VGA  Thats why I would rather connect via HDMI as mentioned

My TV supports 120x1080 via the VGA (see above)
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Re: New Video Card Requied.
« Reply #4 on: 29 January 2010, 20:00:09 »
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« Reply #5 on: 29 January 2010, 20:03:11 »
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thats the site I prefer mostly for tests  :y

http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/directx-10-shootout,1701.html

Allways liked Tomshardware, that report talks of DX10, the cards I was looking at are now on DX11

http://www.aria.co.uk/Products/Components/Graphics+Cards/PCI-E/ATI+Radeon+5000+Series+PCI-E/Asus+ATI+Radeon+HD+5770+1024MB+GDDR5+PCI-Express+Graphics+Card+?productId=39256

http://www.ebuyer.com/product/178941


 :-? seems like I also lost the track :-/
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« Reply #6 on: 29 January 2010, 20:04:08 »
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thats the site I prefer mostly for tests  :y

http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/directx-10-shootout,1701.html

Allways liked Tomshardware, that report talks of DX10, the cards I was looking at are now on DX11

http://www.aria.co.uk/Products/Components/Graphics+Cards/PCI-E/ATI+Radeon+5000+Series+PCI-E/Asus+ATI+Radeon+HD+5770+1024MB+GDDR5+PCI-Express+Graphics+Card+?productId=39256

http://www.ebuyer.com/product/178941


 :-? seems like I also lost the track :-/

Join the club  ;D
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thats the site I prefer mostly for tests  :y

http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/directx-10-shootout,1701.html

Allways liked Tomshardware, that report talks of DX10, the cards I was looking at are now on DX11

http://www.aria.co.uk/Products/Components/Graphics+Cards/PCI-E/ATI+Radeon+5000+Series+PCI-E/Asus+ATI+Radeon+HD+5770+1024MB+GDDR5+PCI-Express+Graphics+Card+?productId=39256

http://www.ebuyer.com/product/178941


 :-? seems like I also lost the track :-/

Last time I was looking at cards and bought the GTX 8800 they were on DDR3 with talk of DDR 3 being fitted to motherboards, now the bugga's are on GDDR5
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Re: New Video Card Required.
« Reply #8 on: 29 January 2010, 20:31:44 »
I'm sure this mad race will continue even after our bones become ashes.. :P
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« Reply #9 on: 29 January 2010, 21:35:45 »
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Worth looking at the spec of your TV, even though its 1920x1080, a lot of TV's don't support that via VGA
Why would he use the VGA input when he can connect the PC using HDMI?
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« Reply #10 on: 29 January 2010, 21:57:45 »
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Worth looking at the spec of your TV, even though its 1920x1080, a lot of TV's don't support that via VGA
Why would he use the VGA input when he can connect the PC using HDMI?

Most TV's only have a few HDMI connections, which are soon used up. DVD Player / Xbox / Sky+

VGA is only used for PC, so might as well use it!
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Re: New Video Card Required.
« Reply #11 on: 29 January 2010, 23:36:06 »
Mine has enough to be going on with.


Connections

    * CI (Common Interface)
    * HDMI Input 4 (1 side, 3 rear) [ver. 1.3 with Deep Colour & x.v.Colour]
    * Composite Video Input AV3: RCA phono type x 1 (side)
    * S-Video Input AV3: Mini DIN 4-pin (side)
    * Audio Input (for Video) AV3: RCA phono type connectors (L, R) (1 set, side)
    * Component Video Input RCA phono type x 3 [Y , PB, PR] (rear)
    * PC Input Mini D-sub 15-pin x 1 (rear)
    * Audio Input (for HDMI, PC, Component) RCA phono type connectors (L, R) x 2 sets
      (rear x 1 set, side x 1 set)
    * 21-Pin Input/Output
       AV1: AV In/Out, RGB In, Q-Link (rear) /
       AV2: AV In/Out, S-Video In, RGB In, Q-Link (rear)
    * LAN Port
    * Monitor Out RCA phono type connectors (L, R) (1 set rear)
    * Audio Output Headphone jack (1 side)
    * Digital Audio Output (Optical)
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Re: New Video Card Required.
« Reply #12 on: 29 January 2010, 23:53:35 »
Blessed the good old days when you only needed to know your card is SVGA
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Re: New Video Card Required.
« Reply #13 on: 30 January 2010, 00:06:50 »
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Blessed the good old days when you only needed to know your card is SVGA

and I for one am glad they are long gone. ;D ;D
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« Reply #14 on: 30 January 2010, 08:48:39 »
I have not a clue what you are all talking about is just GIBBERISH to me.
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