So I just bought a 55 inch LCD (my first HD TV) and just finished building my first true gaming pc (well budget minded).
I put the cable modem and wireless in the office (about 12 feet from where the tv is in the living room) I figured I would just game on my old school 18 inch LCD monitor but now that I have the 55 inch it only seems logical to game on that! Plus I have no way to stream netflix currently and it would be a nice secondary feature of having the PC hooked up to the TV.
I have a GTX 460 1GB which does have HDMI Out.
The question is...Should I hardwire cat cable to the PC?
I can do this one of two ways...1) Re-route the actual Coax and put the modem and router on the TV stand
2) run a 25 ish foot cat cable down into the basement and then back up into the living room to the tv (leaving the router/modem in the office).
OR...Should I just slap a PCI Wireless N card in the computer and call it a day? I have comcast 12gb package (realistic DL speeds of about 2gb's hardwired) Would I see a loss if any with a wireless N card? Assuming signal would be good (which it should be, I get full bars throughout my house on my laptop/Ipod) it would be the easiest way.
Using the second method would also allow me to take the computer back into the computer room if I were to ever get tired of only being able to use it in the living room.
Any ideas???
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produ...059&cm_re=pci_wireless-_-33-704-059-_-Product
20 bucks shipped and 5 eggs seems good!
I put the cable modem and wireless in the office (about 12 feet from where the tv is in the living room) I figured I would just game on my old school 18 inch LCD monitor but now that I have the 55 inch it only seems logical to game on that! Plus I have no way to stream netflix currently and it would be a nice secondary feature of having the PC hooked up to the TV.
I have a GTX 460 1GB which does have HDMI Out.
The question is...Should I hardwire cat cable to the PC?
I can do this one of two ways...1) Re-route the actual Coax and put the modem and router on the TV stand
2) run a 25 ish foot cat cable down into the basement and then back up into the living room to the tv (leaving the router/modem in the office).
OR...Should I just slap a PCI Wireless N card in the computer and call it a day? I have comcast 12gb package (realistic DL speeds of about 2gb's hardwired) Would I see a loss if any with a wireless N card? Assuming signal would be good (which it should be, I get full bars throughout my house on my laptop/Ipod) it would be the easiest way.
Using the second method would also allow me to take the computer back into the computer room if I were to ever get tired of only being able to use it in the living room.
Any ideas???
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produ...059&cm_re=pci_wireless-_-33-704-059-_-Product
20 bucks shipped and 5 eggs seems good!
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