Graphics Card Pre Buying help.

[Darkraver]

Hello, I was hoping if any of you could help me. I need to know what graphics cards, in the ATI 3870/50 PCI-E range support 1440 x 900 @ 75hz Both DVI and Analogue modes, I am mainly looking into GDDR4 cards, but GDDR3 is fine and under £125. This is an important factor as my LCD monitor is quite picky and must be run at these resolutions, also 60hz kills my eyes, LCD or CRT. My current Sapphire X1950XT 256mb, Currently run 1440x900@75hz on DVI with no problems.. Thank you for your assistance if you can help me.

Darkraver.

 

[Andeh]

hmm strange, i don't recall ever seeing an LCD monitor that has a native refresh rate higher than 60hz. What model is your LCD?
To answer your question though, any modern graphics card will support almost any refresh rate, as long as your monitor can handle it.

 

[Darkraver]

Well i had bought a Gecube 3870XT DDR4. From another place, but that would not run at 75hz @ 1440 x 900 over DVI or Analogue at all, no matter what i did, then it died lol. So that's being picked up tommorow for RMA and a refund. But yeah, The monitor Can run at 60hz alright, but i still get headaches from that. its a samsung SM932GW

But i am still puzzaled as to why the now dead card could not run 1440 900 @ 75hz at either mode. I am now extremely hesistant whether to buy another of differnt brand, I could go with another saphire, but i still have no gaurentee that it does support 1440 900 @ 75hz

anyway off to sleep all day till 6pm, back then

 

[Andeh]

if you're unsure about ATI's cards then try an nvidia card. I know for a fact that all modern nvidia cards have no problems running 75hz at any resolution.
if you definitly want an ATI card though, I would probably say that you just got unlucky and the card probably died from some other reason, I really cant see any reason why ATI's card are not happy with 75hz at any resolution.

Treat it like a one off and asume it wont happen again. If it does, contact the manufacture of the card, and explain your situation to them.

Also, just out of curiosity, what motherboard do you have?

 

[-iceblade^]

and what are the rest of your specs?

welcome to the forums by the way; enjoy your stay

 

[Darkraver]

if you're unsure about ATI's cards then try an nvidia card. I know for a fact that all modern nvidia cards have no problems running 75hz at any resolution.
if you definitly want an ATI card though, I would probably say that you just got unlucky and the card probably died from some other reason, I really cant see any reason why ATI's card are not happy with 75hz at any resolution.

Treat it like a one off and asume it wont happen again. If it does, contact the manufacture of the card, and explain your situation to them.

Also, just out of curiosity, what motherboard do you have?

Alright, well i am not sure about Nvidia since, the cards are a lot dearer and don't seen to have the perfomance ATI's have Also to answers yours and Ice's questions

My specs are:
MB: MSI K9A Platinum AMD® CrossFire™ 580X (Latest Bios, A.F.A.I.K.:
RAM: OCZ 2GB PC2-6400C4 Dual Channel Platinum Revision 2 XTC Series DDR2
CPU: AMD Dual Core 5000+ Black Edition AM2 With Artic Cooler 64 Freezer pro
HD: 80gb Sata1 maxtor, 80gb sata2 Seagate.
Video Card: Sapphire ATi Radeon X1950XT 256MB DDR3 256Bit.
Sound: X-fi Xtreme Gamer
PSU: OCZ StealthXStream 500w Silent ATX2 Power Supply
OS: XP 32bit Pro SP2 with the Official ATI Drivers.

 

[Darkraver]

Well, Im thinking of Nvidia, but i only have £130 to spend, And also ATI. Preferably one with the dual coolers that blow out air too. 3870 series i prefer for ATI

 

[MR.B]

60Hz on a LCD should not hurt your eyes... unlike CRT's they do not flicker at all, even if you was to run a LCD at 10Hz it would not flicker, just refresh the screen 10 times a second. So thats very weird... unless the monitor is faulty and the backlight is flickering.

 

[Darkraver]

60Hz on a LCD should not hurt your eyes... unlike CRT's they do not flicker at all, even if you was to run a LCD at 10Hz it would not flicker, just refresh the screen 10 times a second. So thats very weird... unless the monitor is faulty and the backlight is flickering.

Oh right.. Well i did'nt know that, i guess i should be not stupid in future . Thanks for telling me that, i guess it's cuz i switch from monitor's a lot. Anyway, nah i'll keep it in mind now, thanks a lot.