New Graphic card for Media Center PC

[Or94]

I want to move my brother processor INTEL QX9770 to my media center PC and I want to buy a new graphics card for gaming. will the QX9770 will works good with the GTX 470 or the HD5850? Which is better? they are good graphics card for games in 1920X1080 with filters?

 

[toyota]

a QX9770 and a gtx470 for a media center pc? thats going to be one toasty entertainment center.

 

[Or94]

It will be good?

 

[toyota]

It will be good?

if you consider 500 watts and 90C+ temps in a small confined space good then yeah.

 

[Wag]

The 470 can't bitstream lossless audio although the 460 can.

 

[Or94]

So I need to take GTX 460?

 

[Wag]

If you must be able to bitstream audio then any of the ATI 5xxx cards will do fine or just the GTX 460. Otherwise you are fine with the 470- it will pass audio over HDMI, just won't be able to bitstream.

 

[Or94]

I dont want audio by the HDMI. I have home theather

 

[Emulex]

i'd just go for a hd 5450 for low heat and option to bitstream. then use the on-motherboard TOSLINK to home theatre then. it is possible to introduce sync issues since buffers are routing through different devices.

 

[happy medium]

I want to move my brother processor INTEL QX9770 to my media center PC and I want to buy a new graphics card for gaming. will the QX9770 will works good with the GTX 470 or the HD5850? Which is better? they are good graphics card for games in 1920X1080 with filters?

5850 is your best choice

 

[Or94]

But now I have HD4850 and I have problems with drivers and more problems.

 

[NoQuarter]

Is this Media Center PC actually going to be playing games a lot? You're completely overkilling the system if it's suppose to be an HTPC. You should use a Radeon 5570 and a modest low power CPU. If you want, a Radeon 5670 can be used to play some games. A Geforce 220 could be used instead but I believe the Radeons have better audio capabilities.

 

[kalrith]

I dont want audio by the HDMI. I have home theather

I assume this means your home-theater receiver doesn't have HDMI ports. Even if it did as long as it can accept LPCM instead of bitstream audio, you'd be fine with the GTX 470.

But I agree with happy medium that the 5850 is the best choice. It will do everything media related absolutely perfectly, draw less power than a GTX 470, and have similar gaming performance.