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What graphics card?

dandos23

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I have no idea what graphics card to get. :confused:

I watch a lot of HD movies and do a bit of encoding.
I would like to be able the have a HDMI out on the graphics card that can carry sound out as well and I dont really want to spend too much, about £50.

Any help will be great.

Dan.
 
dandos23 said:
Would the Nvidia one be able to out put sound through the hdmi or would I need a separate cable to get the sound from the pc to the tv.

Thanks for replying. :)
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The ATi one will be far superior for sound over HDMI.

nVidia cards are flaky when it comes down to that, plus the ATi one is cheaper, no reason to chose the nVidia card over it.
 
kylew said:
The ATi one will be far superior for sound over HDMI.

nVidia cards are flaky when it comes down to that.
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But the ATi one does not have a HDMI out, it only has a dvi and AFAIK you cant send sound through a dvi socket.

What ATi card would you recommend?
 
goujon945 said:
http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=GX-162-XF&groupid=701&catid=56&subcat=168

AFAIK the 5xxx series can even bitstream audio if needed
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That sounds good, but I thought that the 5450 was a low profile card. Would that be an issue?


jigger said:
I would go for this as it covers you for some light gaming.

http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=GX-209-SP&groupid=701&catid=56&subcat=1274
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I have been looking at some flight sims recently (only very cheap ones, nothing very good).
I even looked at that card, but yet again it only has dvi out.
 
dandos23 said:
I have been looking at some flight sims recently (only very cheap ones, nothing very good).
I even looked at that card, but yet again it only has dvi out.
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I'm pritty sure it has HDMI. :) Might be worth asking OcUK first though.

From the description,

- Powered by Radeon® HD 4670 GPU @ 750MHz
- 1024MB GDDR3 Memory @ 2000MHz
- 128-Bit Memory Interface
- 320 stream processing units
- DirectX® 10.1
- 24x custom filter anti-aliasing (CFAA) and high performance anisotropic filtering
- Dual mode ATI CrossFireX™ multi-GPU support for highly scalable performance
- PCI Express® 2.0 support
- 1xDVI, 1xHDMI and 1xVGA ports
 
OLDSKOOL said:
Well its sold as Sapphire ATI Radeon HD 4550 "Low Profile" 512MB GDDR3 Dual DVI/HDMI so unless OC have listed this wrong?
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It may well be that the pic is wrong, as that is what I am going on.

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But I cant see a HDMI out.

Thanks for the help. :)
 
jigger said:
I'm pritty sure it has HDMI. :) Might be worth asking OcUK first though.

From the description,

- Powered by Radeon® HD 4670 GPU @ 750MHz
- 1024MB GDDR3 Memory @ 2000MHz
- 128-Bit Memory Interface
- 320 stream processing units
- DirectX® 10.1
- 24x custom filter anti-aliasing (CFAA) and high performance anisotropic filtering
- Dual mode ATI CrossFireX™ multi-GPU support for highly scalable performance
- PCI Express® 2.0 support
- 1xDVI, 1xHDMI and 1xVGA ports
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I have a feeling that some of the pics may be wrong.

As you have said, it clearly says that there is a HDMI out, and yet on the pic there are 2 dvi out's. :confused:
 
rpg said:
Don't worry mate, the centre S-Video connection has been replaced by HDMI:
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So it is the pics that are wrong.

That is looking very tempting. Would the 4670 be better if I was possibly going to do some very (and I mean very) light gaming, bearing in mind that I don't really care about FPS or any thing like that?

Also would that actually be upgrading?
I have the Nvidia GeForce 8400GS.

Thanks by the way. :)
 
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