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jkruger
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What's the best card for bluray playback with DVI-dual link and vga connectors with pci-e for under $200.? I have a samsung 305t that needs the dvi dual and would like to be able to use a standard monitor when necessary.
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nuttall_chris
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I'm using an ATI 4550. It has three outputs; DVI, VGA and HDMI. The card I have is also fanless which is nice in a HTPC.
Chris.
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jkruger
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Is the dvi a dual link?
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emdawgz1
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Joust
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Location: Almonte, Ontario, Canada
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| Posted: Thu Jan 29, 2009 5:32 pm Post subject: |
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| nuttall_chris wrote: | I'm using an ATI 4550. It has three outputs; DVI, VGA and HDMI. The card I have is also fanless which is nice in a HTPC.
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Do you Think the 3650 would be the same?
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jkruger
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I have an XFX nvidea 8600gt in it now but I can't get it to display the higher resolutions. Could this be a driver issue?
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Joust
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| jkruger wrote: | | I have an XFX nvidea 8600gt in it now but I can't get it to display the higher resolutions. Could this be a driver issue? |
Yes it is. I have the same card. nvidea 8xxx drivers suck.
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AnalogRocks
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Location: Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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| Joust wrote: | | jkruger wrote: | | I have an XFX nvidea 8600gt in it now but I can't get it to display the higher resolutions. Could this be a driver issue? |
Yes it is. I have the same card. nvidea 8xxx drivers suck. |
That's the card I had before I went ATi 3450 so I could do custom resolutions. The 8600gt just didn't cut it.
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Joust
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if they would open it up so that powerstrip could be used, it'd be great.
but Nvidea refused so out they go.
I hope they are reading about this marketing blunder
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jkruger
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They released a new driver last week. Has anyone tried it? I'll be close to Fry's today, so any recommendations would be good.
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nuttall_chris
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Location: Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
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| Joust wrote: | | nuttall_chris wrote: | I'm using an ATI 4550. It has three outputs; DVI, VGA and HDMI. The card I have is also fanless which is nice in a HTPC.
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Do you Think the 3650 would be the same? |
Don't know but I do know that there are issues with the 3650 and HDMI audio.
Chris.
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kschmit2
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stay away from HD 3XXX series.
The HD4XXX series has most issues fixed though.
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emdawgz1
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Oncet again, the nvidia 9400gt is smoking for me.
and under 100.00. Now if you are avioding nvidia......... 
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AnalogRocks
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Does the Nvidia 94xx series work with powerstrip or are they still pushing their own broken drivers with it?
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nuttall_chris
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emdawgz1
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| AnalogRocks wrote: | | Does the Nvidia 94xx series work with powerstrip or are they still pushing their own broken drivers with it? |
Dunno? I havent had the need to use powerstrip. You mean to make custom timings and what not???
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AnalogRocks
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| emdawgz1 wrote: | | AnalogRocks wrote: | | Does the Nvidia 94xx series work with powerstrip or are they still pushing their own broken drivers with it? |
Dunno? I havent had the need to use powerstrip. You mean to make custom timings and what not??? |
Yep, that was the biggest problem I had with the 8600gt. I would make a custome timing, reboot or change montiros and it was gone.
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jkruger
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Bump. Any consensus on which card I should buy?
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emdawgz1
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FROM THE ENTECH WEBSITE...
PowerStrip 3.84 released
PowerStrip 3.84 has been released with improved support for the latest NVidia and AMD GPUs and IGPs, as well as a handful of small enhancements and optimizations. Year after year, it continues to be the only program of its type to provide driver-independent hardware support to multiple graphics cards from multiple vendors, under every OS from the original retail release of Windows 95 to the latest 64-bit Edition of Windows Vista.
http://www.entechtaiwan.com/util/ps.shtm
The nvidia card works well for me.
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jkruger
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I installed the latest drivers and it still will not let me go higher than 1280x1024. The display is supposed to go to 2560x1600.
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