A Good Video Card?

[Cajete]

Hey, what video card no more than $215 would be good to connect to my HD tv 1080p and my monitor at the same time.

What I'm trying to do is have a video card that will let me output two pictures... one on my 1080 and another on my regular monitor. I would prefer ATI if posible but nVidia is good also.

I have a PCI express x16... not 2.0

thank you

 

[Luke]

PCIe x16 is PCIe 2.0 mate. With the price of the 4850 at what it is, id go for that. Are you going to be doing any gaming?

 

[Cajete]

PCIe x16 is PCIe 2.0 mate. With the price of the 4850 at what it is, id got for that. Are you going to be doing any gaming?

Really?
I thought there was

PCIe 16x

then

PCIe 16x 2.0

 

[kmote]

I think Luke may have been referring to the broad compatibility between them.

 

[Luke]

^i was.... although i did word it kinda like i was not.

 

[septic]

yes, it doubles the available bandwidth. BUT...a regular old PCIE x16 slot is not really taxed. no its not worth buying a mobo just for that if he has a mobo with PCIE 1.0/1.1. they aren't even being used to their bandwidth limits by most (if not all) cards currently availible.

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[Tenenbaum]

Newegg.com - HIS Hightech H487FN1GP Radeon HD 4870 1GB 256-bit GDDR5 PCI Express 2.0 x16 HDCP Ready CrossFire Supported Video Card - Desktop Graphics / Video Cards

 

[SuxoR]

Wouldn't a OC'd 4850 be the same as a 4870?

 

[zmatt]

Not quite. The 4870 uses GDDR5 which is much faster than the GDDR3 in the 4850. To match the memory bandwidth you would have to have a pretty massive clock speed advantage, one that would be impossible to reach on air cooling.

 

[Fat.Clown]

we should all start recommending the 9800gt since it is pseudo "next-gen"
and 9800gtx+ for that matter