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Playing on a 40" LCD 1080p TV

Scottona

Scottona

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Hi All,

Not to sure if this should be in Graphics card or the general forums if so would a kind person move it please :D

Anyways, I am looking a building a desktop and would be using it on a 40" LCD 1080p TV, now in terms of playing games (generally the latest stuff, but not to a Crysis standard) and stuff, do I need to worry about what graphics card I pick? Im all confused with the resolutions and stuff and not to sure what I would be best ordering to get the best out!

Any suggestions would be great!

Cheers
 
Any modern graphics card can give a 1080p output. What you have to worry about is the extra effort it has to put in to render such a large image. So you'll need quite a hefty card with atleast 512mb vRAM. You'd be looking at the 3870 or perhaps the new range of 8800GTS 640mb cards when they come out.
 
well, yes. if you want to game at it's native 1920x1080 resolution, you will need one hell of a graphics card to play the latest games with those make-me-lovely options all turned up. im using an 8800gtx and it does struggle with a few games when you ramp up the detail.....it doe look amazing though.

you could, of course, game in a lower resolution like 1360x768 which whould place far less demand on the gpu and still look great. the choice is your really, how much do you want to spend?
 
Thank you for the responses, wasnt even sure if it was fesable...

In terms of spending, I havent got a set out budget but I would base it around getting the optimum out of the screen, just weighing up if to go this route or to buy a seperate monitor to game on!! Im just starting to piece together a bundle to build!!

Im happy to upgrade and sell on to replace bits to improve as time goes on so its all good!
 
I sometimes game on my 46" 1080p Sharp TV, and my 8800GTX is great for it. The only single game i cannot run totally smooth at 1920x1080 res with the highest graphical settings is Crysis. But it will run it well on roughly 90% full graphical settings at that res.

When buying a TV to game on make sure it has 1:1 pixel mapping over the DVI/HDMI connection - this is important! Otherwise text and certain things will look distorted, and you will not get as clear image as possible. Sharp Aquos 1080p TV's have this, so do quite a few others, but not all, so look into it.
I highly recommend paying avforums.com a visit, and start a thread about it, to make sure you get a TV that suits your needs.
 
Excellent, just done abit of browsing and accrding to the AV Forums my TV accepts 1:1 pixel mapping over dvi/hdmi,

Probably pretty obvious but I assume I can just connect this to my TV with VGA (the tv does 1080p over vga too)?
 
Scottona said:
Excellent, just done abit of browsing and accrding to the AV Forums my TV accepts 1:1 pixel mapping over dvi/hdmi,

Probably pretty obvious but I assume I can just connect this to my TV with VGA (the tv does 1080p over vga too)?
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Is this a Samsung LCD by any chance ;)
 
Scottona said:
Excellent, just done abit of browsing and accrding to the AV Forums my TV accepts 1:1 pixel mapping over dvi/hdmi,

Probably pretty obvious but I assume I can just connect this to my TV with VGA (the tv does 1080p over vga too)?
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It's best to use DVI or get a DVI - HDMI cable (i use one myself) then your'll get the best image quality. No high-end cards have VGA outputs anyway.

All you should have to do is connect a DVI/HDMI cable to the TV and thats it, you may have to adjust the res to 1920x1080 though.
 
Just wondering would it be worth going SLI 8800GTs? or even the new GTS's?

happy to pay the cash if I can get the best result out of my TV!!
 
I use a Sony X-Series 40" 1080p jobby via DVI>HDMI and it looks incredible @ 1080p but also 1600x900 which looks really nice and far better than 720p on the same set.
 
Depends when you building your pc if it is now i get the 8800gt or the new 8800gts in a few weeks,in thw new year g92 should be out.
 
well im hoping to build it this weekend, Just trying to decide if I should go SLI or not for that sort of resolution...is it worth the extra cash?
 
I'd buy a single 8800GTX and see how that fares. My 1900XT copes fine 1920x1080 no AA in some games, but not in others. Flat Out 2 is solid 60fps. Oblivion is playable too.
 
most games are totally playable on my htpc (2.7ghz c2d, 8800gtx) at 1080p 2xfsaa. as i said earlier, its only really when you ramp the fsaa up as well that it starts struggling on anything that doesnt already run slowly (ie crysis lol)
 
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