[dokworm]

There have been a whole raft of NVidia and ATi cards release in the last 2 months, anyone got any of the latest batch?


Has anyone any thoughts on what the current king of the heap is for CRT HT?

 

[deronmoped]

Are there any reviews out there for all the latest cards. I have seen them for when these cards are used for gaming, nothing really for use with HT. I know Mike reviewed the Nvidia, do not think he has gotten to the latest form ATI.


Would love to see one of these sites do the extensive stuff they do for gaming, but with testing the cards for use for HTPC. All the blown up pictures and the fifty pages of breakdown on what the different cards do would be nice.


Deron.

 

[overclkr]

I have a ATI X800XTPE hooked up to my XG75 right now and the pic is well, nothing less than stunning.....


Cliff

 

[deronmoped]

Cliff


How much did that set you back?


Deron.

 

[josh-gustafson]

I hear the new nvidia cards coming out will have better support for hardware de-interlacing, per-pixel something-or-rather. Really, though, as long as you have a fast enough video bus & memory to push out pixels to card at a good enough rate to keep up with HD, I don't see that a fancier video card offers much for an HTPC...

 

[dokworm]

Well, I am interested in a cleaner signal with a lower noise floor for HDTV resolutions, the older radeon sucks *** in that respect, apparently the newer cards are much better in this respect - last card I looked at was an NVidia 5950, just wondering if they have getten any better than that

 

[HK-Steve]

I have sent Mike my X800 with MP1v3 attached for him to evaluate.


Hopefully we should hear from him soon on the card performance.



I saw a bit improvement from my 9000 Pro



Cheers

Steve

 

[PsychoDogBeast]

Hi there all.


I bought my main gaming rig downstairs the other day to mess around with ffdshow, it has a Made by ATI Radeon 9800 pro inside (i know its an old card) and the image difference compared to my Hercules Radeon 9100 inside my HTPC was huge. So i'm sure the new brace of video cards should be an increase on the older generation ones.


I follow the home theater computers forum a bit and have read that the cards to go for when it comes out as josh-gustafson so rightly says is the new brace of Nvidia ones, i have also read that the current favorite when it comes out in AGP format for us no PCI-X users is to be the lower end model 6600, supposedly it has better video processing and image than the 6800 range????, as far as know it still doesn't do WMVHD hardware acceleration though.


I can't quite remember who are the professionals in this on the HTPC forum i think it is madpoet and vpovic, (sorry if i spelt names wrong) but have a look.


Hope this helps


James

 

[Fredrik]

Just a small correction, it's called PCI-e or PCI-Express not PCI-X.


PCI-X has been a standard for servers a couple of years now but not common in home machines, if at all.

 

[jimwhite]

Quote:

Originally posted by PsychoDogBeast i have also read that the current favorite when it comes out in AGP format for us no PCI-X users is to be the lower end model 6600, supposedly it has better video processing and image than the 6800 range????, as far as know it still doesn't do WMVHD hardware acceleration though.

it (6600 and coming 6700) DOES do WMVHD acceleration, that's what's broken in the 6800 AGP chip...

 

[PsychoDogBeast]

Jim


Excellent news on the hardware acceleration, do you have any information on the street price of the 6600 when it comes out.


Best regards


James

 

[kschmit2]

Quote:

Originally posted by PsychoDogBeast Jim Excellent news on the hardware acceleration, do you have any information on the street price of the 6600 when it comes out. Best regards James

Should be less than $200

 

[overclkr]

Quote:

Originally posted by deronmoped Cliff How much did that set you back? Deron.

430 Bucks. It is/was actually a Saphire X800Pro VIVO when I bought it and then happily and succesfully modded my card to a full fledged X800XTPE.


Running rock solid stable at 520/560.


Cliff

 

[Ruffneck19111]

I don't like the picture from my 9800.


I get a better picture from the 1080i out of my cable box.

 

[NTHEZONE]

Quote:

Originally posted by Ruffneck19111 I don't like the picture from my 9800. I get a better picture from the 1080i out of my cable box.

This is based on what comparison? Be a little more specific as to what you are using as the source from the 9800,is it (DVD), or T2 ultimate edition.


A hidef signal will look better than the dvd output from a computer.

Except the T2 Ultimate edition although I have not seen the version yet.


Darin

 

[dokworm]

Hmm, the new NVidia NForfce 4 motherboard chipset supports DUAL PCI Express slots, you can jam two PCIe graphics cards in there...now if they just included blending support

 

[Vern Dias]

I you go over to the HTPC forum and do a little searching, you'll see that most, including Mike Parker now consider the NVidia cards to be the cream of the crop for image quality.


I know my NVidia 5950 Ultra certainly blew away my ATI 9700 Pro for DVD and HD image quality.


Vern

 

[deronmoped]

Vern


What was better about the image?


You should be able to get a excellent image out of a ATI card. Was the image you were getting out of your 9700 not so good?


Thanks, Deron.

 

[Vern Dias]

Deron, why don't you search the AVS HTPC forum? You'll find out all you want to know. I had ATI cards for years. The NVidia is sharper, delivers more real detail, has better color, has a VGA port that can actually drive the voltage required to reach 100 IRE, and can support HDTV resolutions directly from the DVI without requiring a dongle. (For Starters)


Mike Parker is impressed with NVidia. 'Nuff said.


Vern

 

[deronmoped]

Vern


Yeah, I been following the Nvidia cards in the HTPC forum, did some other research on it. There was a write up on it, pretty much for gaming, no comparison to the latest ATI card.


Thing is I just sunk $500.00 into my latest card and would love to get something that would be alot better. I just feel that it is real hard to justify spending any more money, till I know it will be worth it to me. I could put a newer card (Nvidia or ATI) into my system and come away with buyers remorse


Right now there is already all this talk about PCI express. Will those cards be all the rage in the near future, so will I be looking to upgrade again.


Also the word is not out on the ATI X800 yet.


At $500.00 a pop, I would have to start going to the movies again to save money


Deron.