An interesting result. The impression that I get from reading various news groups is that people generally seem to worry only whether a graphics card can do high-definition; they never seem to worry about how well a graphics card can do high definition. Your result indicates that a more-capable graphics card will produce a better picture. This confirms a result obtained by Anandtech in a review of several graphics cards, where they found that an ATI card was noticeably better at de-interlacing than the Nvidia GT430 (the GT430 is favoured by several members of TGB). When asked to comment, Nvidia said that the GT430 did not have enough processing power to perform the type of de-interlacing that the ATI card implemented. Full article here:fobos8 wrote:Watched some football again tonight on ITV HD. Managed to get a really good picture using the TBS card in my wife's PC. She has a Nvidia Geforce GTX660 card that she uses for CAD software. The picture is a lot crisper and less blurred. There is a little bit of blurring when the camera moves quickly but this almost instantaneously corrects itself. Pretty much the same quality as the TV's onboard Freesat HD.
http://www.anandtech.com/show/4380/disc ... shootout/1
A more-capable graphics card will produce a better picture. But a more-capable graphics card will also consume more power, and generate more heat. The Nvidia GTX660 is at the higher end of the performance scale, so will consume more power and generate more heat. You might need to use a bigger power supply than you currently have, and arranging adequate cooling might be problematic if the case is not designed for it. On the other hand, would you want to use a graphics card with a lower spec than the GTX660? A GT430 might be as good, but there again it might give you a picture that is noticeably worse than the GTX660. A difficult decision to make, I think.fobos8 wrote:Thing is how do I now manage to get a graphics card in my Streacom case? I already have a soundcard in there which is definitely not coming out and the TBS card. The printed circuit board will take another PCIe card but there is no extra "proper" slot on the case. There is space in the case though - so do I get a drill out and some self tapping screws and get it on there?? Of should I get another case with 3 slots?
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