Best VIDEO CARD option to upgrade HTPC to 3D

Nvidia GTX-430 or higher.
Checkerboard 3D mode to your DLP makes it simple.

I got the GTX460 with 1gb. Put it in my i5 computer and hooked it up to my Samsung 46 inch. WOW

I'm also interested in people's opinions on this. I currently use an HTPC for all blu ray / media files and it works good enough (occasional video stutter and rarely, TMT will crash during a blu ray).

I'm buying a 3DTV this week and was deciding between on Oppo Blu Ray player (BDP-93), or just upgrading my HTPC to a really nice graphics card that's 3D capable.

I'd much rather get the Oppo player, except it doesn't support DVD or Blu Ray folder support...and I have about 200 concert DVD's I've made over the years with menu's and chapter support. I need a way to still play those, so I figured I'd just stick with my HTPC and upgrade the video card.

I guess that was a really long way of asking if there's a video card out there that can come even remotely close to the high quality of the Oppo player? I'd really appreciate anyone's help with this.

I've been reading around and it seems the Radeon HD 6450 has 3D blu ray decoding included on-chip. Since I don't play video games and only care about blu ray playback, I think that should be fine.

I saw a few places that had the fanless SAPPHIRE 100322L for around $50. Unless someone suggests otherwise, I'll give it a try and post my results.

I got the card, installed it and tried to watch a 3D blu ray. I tried Arcsoft TotalMedia Theater 3 (with SIM3D), TotalMedia Theater 5 and Power DVD. After HOURS of experimenting, I looks on AMD's site and found that they only listed the Panasonic VT series TV's as compatible with their cards and I have the GT series.

I have now officially given up on media centers and will be putting mine on eBay. Seriously, I've been using media center since the beta of MCE 2005 was released and have been running it with a CableCARD for about three years. I have done a million installs with every compatible OS and I'm not officially fed up.

I'm going to replace the media center PC I had in my bedroom with a WD Live player and replace the one in my living room with a regular 3D blu ray player.

Goodbye media center...you were once awesome, now you're just a pain in everyone's ass.

Just in case you haven't tossed out your HTPC yet, if you want to go ATI, you need to get a 6000 series for 3D Blu-ray. I've got a 6850 running in mine it works beautifully.

*Sorry, I just re-read your last post and it's the TV that's not compatible. Nevermind

Hi

Ihave one question please:

what graphic card is better for

1 3d movie playback

2 3d pc gaming e.x. Battlefield 3 3D

3 display on lg 3d cinema tv

Ati 6450 or msi gt430 ( nvidia 3d vision ready ) ?

The one is invidia 3d vision and the other HD3D

Can someone tell me if with an ati 6770 ddr5 can cover my needs on 3d gaming ?

Is it much worth pc 3d gaming against xbox 360 3d gaming ?

there are some many different opinion about getting a 3d worked on HTPC.

I am going crazy, the more i read, the more i get confused.

PC gaming is a lot better on pc. The better the graphics card the better results. There are so many different controls for video, mapping and game play than a console. I remember reading one of the big reviewers for pc gamer mag stating that playing games on a console was liking watching avatar on an old tv at the barber shop. One of the big things is audio on AMD graphic cards can output DTD HD and DTS MA which Nvdia cannot do on most of there high end cards. Try it you will like it.

Hi, want to ask the ask, I have the 6670 Radeon, I connect it to optoma hd33 projector, when I switch to 3d mode, the desktop frequency is 24hz, his make the projector display to become smaller, not the same projection size as 60hz,

Anyone having the same problem, any way to overcome this, tried nvidia gt 630 and when the display frequency changed to 24hertz,, the screen does not become smaller.

With ATI cards, you have to adjust the overscan individually for every resolution.