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6950 on a 60" panel.

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I am about to purchase a tv, going for a second viewing tonight to decide between a 58" or maybe a 60", both plasma. My question is I have just purchased a 2gb HIS Ice Q turbo 6950 and as I need to swap the room around to accommodate the TV, it could very well end up next to my PC. It would be an awful shame not to take advantage of this possibility, do you not agree ? Especially when the wife has gone to bed at 10.00pm on Saturday nights :D

However, obviously its easy enough to do but I am wondering whether its a little too much of a strain on the GPU. I can't afford to go CF at the moment, due to above TV purchase, plus in the last week I bought the rest of my upgrades, a 2500k plus new motherboard and 8gb of ram...plus literally just bought a new corsair PSU, seeing as mine finally died this morning.

Looking to possibly use it for gaming, call of duty and bf titles tbh...that's all i play, but as mentioned above, will it struggle FPS wise and if so, at what sort of screen size do the limitations start to manifest ? Currently have a 42" TV but never hooked it up to the PC, due to being too far away in its current location.

So bottom line, is it possible/playable and what sort of setups do you have, if you currently run on a large panel ?

Cheers.
 
The strain is down to the resolution, a 60" plasma will have the same (or even less) of a resolution to that of even a 21.5" LCD.

So if you game on 1920x1080 (or there abouts) already it will be no different at all. :)

To put things in to perspective, my 30" dell has a viewable area of 1.4 of that 60" plasma yet it has 2.5x the pixels. That will stress the GPU many times more than a 1080p panel.
 
Even on the large size screen will still only be running 1920x1080 so shouldn't be an issue, I have a 7950 (nvidia) running in a media centre on 60" screen and thats fine for 1080p video content but not tested it with games.
 
That's awesome news, currently running 1680x1050....I believe it is, not 100% on the1050 part but I think that's right.
Just hope they got some in stock when I pop in later today .... yeh right :mad:
 
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