looking for video card with best HDMI picture

[jbachman2]

So just to be 100% certain before I drop $100 on a new video card, ANY ATI 5xxx series will support HD Audio?  I like this one:

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814125339&cm_re=ati_5670_1gb-_-14-125-339-_-Product

but I wanna be 100% that this will do the trick before I pull the trigger on it.

[Naylia]

Yes, it will work just fine. I just hope you don’t need to use the slot next to it 🙂

I just ordered the [url=http://www.hisdigital.com/un/product2-548.shtml]HIS HD 5570 Silence[/url] card. It was the fastest low profile card I could find. Planning on trying out FF XIV.

[img width=350 height=269]http://xtreview.com/images/HIS%20radeon%20HD%205570%20Silence%201.jpg[/img]

Problem is, now that I will have a card that supports bit-streaming HD audio via HDMI, I am going to be very tempted to pick up that new AVR I was trying to avoid buying.

There’s a [url=http://www.avsforum.com/avs-vb/showthread.php?t=1224697]giant thread[/url] over at AVSForums troubleshooting issues. Most of them seem to be now resolved as the drivers have matured.

[Mast3rL33]

So by bitstreaming you mean you can get full HD Audio off of the HDMI? Instead of having to purchase a Xonar?

Please do let us know how it performs.

[jbachman2]

Yeah, my HD Fury 2 came in the mail yesterday but I haven’t messed with that yet since I don’t have the video card yet to make it worth while.

@Navlia – I’ll take a look at card, I do like the idea of it being passively cooled.

[Naylia]

[quote=”Mast3rL33″]
So by bitstreaming you mean you can get full HD Audio off of the HDMI? Instead of having to purchase a Xonar? [/quote]

Yes, all of the Radeon 5000 series are capable of passing Dolby TrueHD and DTS-Master HD to an AVR that supports decoding those formats.

[quote=”Mast3rL33″]Please do let us know how it performs.[/quote]

I guess I should review it. Hadn’t actually occurred to me. I was excited about doing a little gaming again 🙂

[autoboy]

Naylia,

Why did you get the video card?  We got  your Intel G45 onboard graphics working fine.  Was it only because you wanted some gaming?

[Naylia]

Yup, gonna give FF XIV a spin.

[Mast3rL33]

As I understand FF XIV is pretty heavy on the graphics card.

[Naylia]

Yeah, the 5570 was pretty much toward the bottom of what is acceptable in a 5000 series card but should be fine for 1280×720.

[autoboy]

The GDDR5 5570 cards approach the 5670 in speed.  Most are still using GDDR3 though.

[Naylia]

Yeah, I don’t see anything low profile either with DDR5

[joao12345]

Quick question about video cards…if my PC uses DDR2 memmory (RAM) and i put in a Video Card with 1gb of DDR3…will that 1gb of DDR3 actually work/process at DDR3 speeds or will it be used as a DDr2 1gig….

[Mast3rL33]

[quote=”joao12345″]
Quick question about video cards…if my PC uses DDR2 memmory (RAM) and i put in a Video Card with 1gb of DDR3…will that 1gb of DDR3 actually work/process at DDR3 speeds or will it be used as a DDr2 1gig….
[/quote]

I am fairly certain that the Graphics card memory and the system memory have few if any ties. The memory on your graphics card specifically interfaces with the Graphics Processing Unit while the system memory interfaces with the Central Processing Unit.

Not necessiarily apples and oranges, but different boats at least.

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