Upgraded my motherboard to a dual/quad core thingy with Win7 etc.

I had two PCI express SLi graphics cards running 3 monitor. Well the new one only had one PCIe (bummer).

I had a 32" LG LD450 that was not being used so I went and bought a graphics card from PC world as I wanted it NOW. 2-3X the price so I will be taking that back claiming ignorance and getting a new one from eBuyer etc.

The sound it great at it goes through the HDMI.

The card I have maxes out at 1920 X 1080, whicgh after having 3 X 19" is no enough for me. So what is the max card that is not mental money. Is it 2560 x 1600?

I have 1X1 pixel scanning so I hope that I can get a good 2 screens worth on the go at the same time and maybe get one of my old monitors set up portrait to dump background tasks onto.

Any ideas, suggestions?

Cheers

Rich

Not really sure on this... if they are 32" tvs usually the max res is something like 1920 x 1080, so having a better video card will not help out.

Really. The the res is wank.

How come hd tv looks great but a pc can't get that clarity.

Yep, lcd tv native res is your best picture for quality text. Anything else looks like mud.

HDTV and pc text output is apples and oranges. Running your pc to produce hdtv on the monitor will produce the same or better results. It's not the source, it's the content.

Hmmm

It's difficult following this. So just to confirm. The TV is shit at producing pc text as it is different beast and I am likely to be stuck with 1900 as max

Rich,
If I may say, you spend too much time pratting about with tech.


Have you no work to do?   

No choice on this one. Pc kept dying mid important task. Just clicking off.

Other questions simply research until i have time.

>The TV is sh## at producing pc text

Well, no. It's just sh## at producing it at the resolution you want.

Think of it like this: When you want/get an lcd display, you need to use it at its native resolution. LCD is made up of physical dots which represent pixels. When you try to display more or less of them on screen (diff resolution), the display looks muddy since it is displaying a number of dots different to its physical number of display pixels.

So, the larger the tv (at 1080p), the larger the pixels, since the resolution is always going to be 1920 x 1080. Monitors have higher resolution at large sizes since they are used for displaying text. The tech is basically the same, but being used for different purposes they come with more/less resolution. There is no need for more than 1080p on a "tv" display that won't be (normally) receiving a signal with more resolution.

Back to three monitors for the time being then.