Video Card Recommendation for 50in Plasma

[OVERKILL]

I currently use a 1900XT and game on a 20in LCD.
I'm interested in hooking up my PC to my 50in Plasma.

What video cards do you guys recommend?

I'm wondering if the 8800GT would be a worthwhile upgrade?


Thanks ahead.

 

[BassBomb]

1080p or 720p?

8800GT is a good upgrade, but it depends on the rest of your system also. 720P would be easy as pie for 8800GT. 1080P it will struggle in some games

 

[OVERKILL]

1080p.
I have an X2 4200 and 2 gigs of ram.

 

[Piuc2020]

Get a 8800GTS (G92) if your budget permits if not a 8800GT will suffice and Newegg currently has a fantastic deal for an OC MSI 8800GT with a Zalman cooler for only $209 after MIR and $229 without MIR.

But really you should give us a pricerange.

 

[OVERKILL]

My price range is about $350

 

[LOUISSSSS]

are you planning to do hardcore gaming on it? if not, your x1900xt will be up for the job perfectly well for even moderate gaming (COD4). u should give it a try first. maybe invest in a quieter cooling solution for it? VF-900?

 

[OVERKILL]

Originally posted by: LOUISSSSS
are you planning to do hardcore gaming on it? if not, your x1900xt will be up for the job perfectly well for even moderate gaming (COD4). u should give it a try first. maybe invest in a quieter cooling solution for it? VF-900?

At this time, I'm not gaming that much but that may change.
I have the Accelero X2 on the 1900XT.

 

[LOUISSSSS]

i HIGHLY suggest u hook it up and give it a go. it should handle 1920x1050 pretty well.

 

[OVERKILL]

My cable from Monoprice is due this week.
I'll give it a go and see what it looks like.

Btw, is the 8800gt much better than the 1900xt?

 

[tshannon92]

I went from a 3200+ Single Core w/ X800XT to the rig in my sig and it's awesome on my 46 inch Aquos. MKV AVI DVD all run great but to compare on the old rig it would stutter occasionally and when I had another rig that had a 5600+ w/ an 8600 it also stuttered not nearly as often but it did.

Id say 8800gt would be the bang for the buck right now.

 

[tylerw13]

Originally posted by: OVERKILL
I currently use a 1900XT and game on a 20in LCD.
I'm interested in hooking up my PC to my 50in Plasma.

What video cards do you guys recommend?

I'm wondering if the 8800GT would be a worthwhile upgrade?


Thanks ahead.

if i were you i would not use a plazma for computer screen...they have been know for burn in problems if they are stuck on the same picture for long periods of time...i guess if you just turn it to your computer for when you watch movies or play games you should be fine but just dont leave it on a desktop screen for long periods of time...i use a gtx on my 46 inch lcd and im running 1080p and it works great!!

 

[aussiestilgar]

Originally posted by: tylerw13
if i were you i would not use a plazma for computer screen...they have been know for burn in problems if they are stuck on the same picture for long periods of time...i guess if you just turn it to your computer for when you watch movies or play games you should be fine but just dont leave it on a desktop screen for long periods of time...i use a gtx on my 46 inch lcd and im running 1080p and it works great!!

Plasma burn in is a thing of the past. Almost all decent brands have anti-burn in tech that actually works. BTW LCD TVs have burn in too, but they employ the same tech.

 

[imported_wired247]

burn in does try to scare you, because you will see ghost images of whatever you were just looking at if you go from a very bright screen to a very dark screen.

however, the "burn in" is not really burned in, and will erase itself through normal usage, i.e. watching TV or a movie

the 8800gt will be fine up to 1080p for anything except games like crysis, where it will start to slow down the framerate quite a bit.

 

[Slugbait]

Originally posted by: aussiestilgar

Originally posted by: tylerw13
if i were you i would not use a plazma for computer screen...they have been know for burn in problems if they are stuck on the same picture for long periods of time...

Plasma burn in is a thing of the past. Almost all decent brands have anti-burn in tech that actually works. BTW LCD TVs have burn in too, but they employ the same tech.

Correct. I believe you stand a better chance of burn-in on a CRT television.

 

[kylebisme]

Originally posted by: OVERKILL
Btw, is the 8800gt much better than the 1900xt?

I suppose that depends on how you define "much", but I was pleased with upgrading to the 8800gt from the x1950xtx I used before it.

Originally posted by: tylerw13
if i were you i would not use a plazma for computer screen...they have been know for burn in problems if they are stuck on the same picture for long periods of time...i guess if you just turn it to your computer for when you watch movies or play games you should be fine but just dont leave it on a desktop screen for long periods of time...i use a gtx on my 46 inch lcd and im running 1080p and it works great!!

I wouldn't use anything but a plasma as primary monitor, and haven't used anything else for over 3 years now. Sure, a fixed image or fixed portion of an image will cause visibly uneven fading if displayed for a long enough period time, that is inherent to plasma technology. However, with the 60,000+ hour half-lives of modern plasmas, it takes rather extreme negligence to cause such burn-in; and, because the fading happens slower the more each sub-pixel has faded, that fading can be corrected simply running other content to even out the wear. Beyond that, most modern plasmas have negative image options so you can just invert the colors on whatever image caused the uneven fading to correct it even quicker, and they also generally pixel orbiting functions which spread the fading around a bit. But even without such options, burn-in is easy to aviod and even easier to correct, so it isn't rightly a rational reason to aviod plasmas.

 

[imported_wired247]

Originally posted by: TheSnowman

Originally posted by: OVERKILL
Btw, is the 8800gt much better than the 1900xt?

I suppose that depends on how you define "much", but I was pleased with upgrading to the 8800gt from the x1950xtx I used before it.

Originally posted by: tylerw13
if i were you i would not use a plazma for computer screen...they have been know for burn in problems if they are stuck on the same picture for long periods of time...i guess if you just turn it to your computer for when you watch movies or play games you should be fine but just dont leave it on a desktop screen for long periods of time...i use a gtx on my 46 inch lcd and im running 1080p and it works great!!

I wouldn't use anything but a plasma as primary monitor, and haven't used anything else for over 3 years now. Sure, a fixed image or fixed portion of an image will cause visibly uneven fading if displayed for a long enough period time, that is inherent to plasma technology. However, with the 60,000+ hour half-lives of modern plasmas, it takes rather extreme negligence to cause such burn-in; and, because the fading happens slower the more each sub-pixel has faded, that fading can be corrected simply running other content to even out the wear. Beyond that, most modern plasmas have negative image options so you can just invert the colors on whatever image caused the uneven fading to correct it even quicker, and they also generally pixel orbiting functions which spread the fading around a bit. But even without such options, burn-in is easy to aviod and even easier to correct, so it isn't rightly a rational reason to aviod plasmas.

I'm a huge plasma fan too, unfortunately as a monitor all that pixel shifting looks a bit grainy up close.

I mostly stick to blu rays, TV, etc with the plasma now