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CaucasianAsian
Profile Blog Joined September 2005
Korea (South)11577 Posts
April 07 2010 04:20 GMT
#21
On April 07 2010 13:19 StorrZerg wrote:
well he needs a new card ne ways if he ever wants to play beta



my laptop can play it pretty well
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FragKrag
Profile Blog Joined September 2007
United States11552 Posts
April 07 2010 04:23 GMT
#22
Try using Mplayer, Media Player Classic, or VLC player. I'm not convinced that you actually need a new graphics card just for movie watching.

then again, you probably need it for extra monitors anyways...
*TL CJ Entusman #40* "like scissors does anything to paper except MAKE IT MORE NUMEROUS" -paper
LuckyFool
Profile Blog Joined June 2007
United States9015 Posts
April 07 2010 04:39 GMT
#23
yeah definitely try different players. I used to watch DVD movies fine on an old gateway PC that was 10 years old at my grandparents. It had like a 1996 ATI card in there that had like 2kb of video ram.

If it's skipping parts of the movie or something I would try a different player (VLC, Mplayer DivX etc) and update video codecs and drivers to the latest just to be sure its video card problems and not anything else.
mahnini
Profile Blog Joined October 2005
United States6862 Posts
April 07 2010 06:01 GMT
#24
i stopped using VLC because it lags for HD stuffs
the world's a playground. you know that when you're a kid, but somewhere along the way everyone forgets it.
Railz
Profile Joined July 2008
United States1449 Posts
April 07 2010 07:20 GMT
#25
Video cards don't really effect effect video - It is mostly ram and bottleneck speeds on the motherboard (or even the player)

Either way, I use a GTS250 overclocked if you're still in the market for one. It can run 1600 x 900
Did the whole world just get a lot smaller and go whooosh?_-` Number 0ne By.Fantasy Fanatic!
FragKrag
Profile Blog Joined September 2007
United States11552 Posts
April 07 2010 07:28 GMT
#26
Huh....?
*TL CJ Entusman #40* "like scissors does anything to paper except MAKE IT MORE NUMEROUS" -paper
KingofHearts
Profile Blog Joined January 2009
Japan562 Posts
April 07 2010 09:51 GMT
#27
ati 5770 supoorts dirctx 11 yo this is a good buy
moshi moshi~
ZeaL.
Profile Blog Joined April 2009
United States5955 Posts
April 07 2010 13:23 GMT
#28
A rough guideline of the current lower end ATi stuff.
Find your price and then go up the list until you hit the price you want

4650 < 4670 ~ 3850 < 3870 < 4830 ~ 5670 < 4770 < 4850 ~ 5750 < 4870 ~ 5770
CaucasianAsian
Profile Blog Joined September 2005
Korea (South)11577 Posts
April 07 2010 15:18 GMT
#29
On April 07 2010 16:20 Railz wrote:
Video cards don't really effect effect video - It is mostly ram and bottleneck speeds on the motherboard (or even the player)

Either way, I use a GTS250 overclocked if you're still in the market for one. It can run 1600 x 900


1600 x 900 is too small, i want something that can support at least 2 monitors at 1900x1200
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Sadistx
Profile Blog Joined February 2009
Zimbabwe5568 Posts
April 07 2010 17:54 GMT
#30
Your processor is the thing that decodes video (usually) depending on the player and the codec being used. Some codecs can use the GPU to decode it without any CPU use, but that requires CUDA or Ati's video acceleration.
Boblion
Profile Blog Joined May 2007
France8043 Posts
Last Edited: 2010-04-07 18:56:34
April 07 2010 18:56 GMT
#31
On April 07 2010 13:03 LuckyFool wrote:
I have a friend who built a pc last summer (2.5k budget) and bought three of those. He's set for the next decade and a half.

It will be completely obsolete in 4 years.
fuck all those elitists brb watching streams of elite players.
CharlieMurphy
Profile Blog Joined March 2006
United States22895 Posts
April 07 2010 19:01 GMT
#32
On April 07 2010 13:23 FragKrag wrote:
Try using Mplayer, Media Player Classic, or VLC player. I'm not convinced that you actually need a new graphics card just for movie watching.

then again, you probably need it for extra monitors anyways...


No, when you have a bad card and you watch HD shit, it will load really slow and if you try and skip around or your card is struggling to play it it skips or lags or whatever.

On April 07 2010 15:01 mahnini wrote:
i stopped using VLC because it lags for HD stuffs

What do you use instead?
..and then I would, ya know, check em'. (Aka SpoR)
AyeH
Profile Blog Joined March 2010
United States534 Posts
April 07 2010 21:10 GMT
#33
i know all these people are recommending ATI but I would do some extensive comparisons on non biased sights such as 3dguru and compare ATI and Nvidia. There are just way too many ATI fanboys on TL that don't look at both sides. They only point out negatives of one side and never the positives.
Is it in you?
AyeH
Profile Blog Joined March 2010
United States534 Posts
April 07 2010 21:13 GMT
#34
On April 08 2010 03:56 Boblion wrote:
Show nested quote +
On April 07 2010 13:03 LuckyFool wrote:
I have a friend who built a pc last summer (2.5k budget) and bought three of those. He's set for the next decade and a half.

It will be completely obsolete in 4 years.


I have a laptop I bought 5 years ago during my sophomore year of HS. I thought it would become obsolete. Funny thing is it runs every game I throw at it (except Crysis because even some GPUs nowadays cant handle Crysis). Sure, they'll be much better technology but the old tech will still do work.
Is it in you?
Sere
Profile Blog Joined March 2010
158 Posts
April 07 2010 21:14 GMT
#35
Any $25 Radeon you buy from Newegg will handle SC and BluRays flawlessly. It will also run two monitors fine.

Not sure how it will run SC2, but I'm running fine on Medium settings with my three year old integrated card, so I'd guess it will run it on High.
Boblion
Profile Blog Joined May 2007
France8043 Posts
April 07 2010 21:25 GMT
#36
On April 08 2010 06:13 G4T0R4D3 wrote:
Show nested quote +
On April 08 2010 03:56 Boblion wrote:
On April 07 2010 13:03 LuckyFool wrote:
I have a friend who built a pc last summer (2.5k budget) and bought three of those. He's set for the next decade and a half.

It will be completely obsolete in 4 years.


I have a laptop I bought 5 years ago during my sophomore year of HS. I thought it would become obsolete. Funny thing is it runs every game I throw at it (except Crysis because even some GPUs nowadays cant handle Crysis). Sure, they'll be much better technology but the old tech will still do work.

Maybe you should try the really recent games ( Metro 2033 for example ).
Also being obsolete doesn't mean poor performances only.
In four years i think that Dx11 will be really a new standard and maybe they will have released Dx12.
Moreover the average gaming card will have better performance and 1/3 of the consumption of this triple SLI.
+ The resolution on a laptop isn't the same than on your average deskstop screen

Just make a comparison between a 5850 and 3x GeForce79xx from 2006.


This kind of rigs look great for people who have a lot of money but they are definitly not the best cost / Performance / durability / TDP choices
fuck all those elitists brb watching streams of elite players.
Jibba
Profile Blog Joined October 2007
United States22883 Posts
April 07 2010 21:55 GMT
#37
On April 08 2010 06:13 G4T0R4D3 wrote:
Funny thing is it runs every game I throw at it (except Crysis because even some GPUs nowadays cant handle Crysis).

Try this.
http://www.incrysis.com/forums/viewtopic.php?id=18999
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FragKrag
Profile Blog Joined September 2007
United States11552 Posts
April 07 2010 22:31 GMT
#38
Should probably err away from Gatorade's advice because he is a bit of a fanboy himself. Gatorade you do realize that Nvidia cards don't have eyefinity, and therefore don't run 3 monitors?
*TL CJ Entusman #40* "like scissors does anything to paper except MAKE IT MORE NUMEROUS" -paper
AyeH
Profile Blog Joined March 2010
United States534 Posts
April 07 2010 23:26 GMT
#39
On April 08 2010 07:31 FragKrag wrote:
Should probably err away from Gatorade's advice because he is a bit of a fanboy himself. Gatorade you do realize that Nvidia cards don't have eyefinity, and therefore don't run 3 monitors?


How am I a fanboy when I am telling him to review both sides, not just one side? Did I tell him to go buy a Nvidia card like you? No. Did I list a feature of Nvidia that I am using to sway his purchase? No. If I were a fanboy, I would be bashing ATI and saying that they suck. Am I doing that? No. And do you realize that Nvidia cards are also capable of running multiple monitors? No. And your advice is to just go buy whatever you listed huh? And that's a better advice than me saying to go look at your options? I certainly do not think so.

To the OP. Look at both ATI and Nvidia then choose. Don't just go with ATI because a fanboy tells you what to buy.

Is it in you?
FragKrag
Profile Blog Joined September 2007
United States11552 Posts
Last Edited: 2010-04-07 23:47:24
April 07 2010 23:46 GMT
#40
That statement of course, was based on a previous discussion, Gatorade

Nvidia cards are indeed capable of running 2 monitors, but not the 3 that ATI Eyefinity allows flawlessly. Nvidia does not even support DisplayPort on their GPUs at the moment. (I think the GTX 4xx series will support them, but the reference model does not have a DisplayPort out) The complete lack of features that would be useful to him (does he need PhysX or CUDA? No!) in a Nvidia card vs the features in an ATI card means he should go with ATI.

If he was savvy enough to 'consider' both sides, then he probably wouldn't need our help in the first place. You come into this thread and instantly pop off a 'fanboy' remark because you have no idea what the graphics card market looks like.

If you honestly think 3x GTX 285 in SLI is a good purchase, I have nothing else to say.
*TL CJ Entusman #40* "like scissors does anything to paper except MAKE IT MORE NUMEROUS" -paper
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