Bought a 7950GX2, but I can't have HDTV running at a different res to my monitor?

[John]

I recently bought an Asus 7950GX2 - one of the big appeals for me was being able to display HDTV on my Sony Bravia, straight from my PC.

However, it's a small HDTV - it only displays 720p max. I connected the component cable from my graphics card to my TV, and headed off to the nVidia control panel to configure it. Surprisingly, I found that there was no way to have the HDTV be recognized by Windows as another monitor. All I could do was have one very large monitor, with a wide resolution - bringing my monitor's resolution down to 1280x720.

What I want is to have my two monitors (DVI connection) displaying at 1920x1200, and my HDTV at 720p. Is this possible?

 

[C.Norris]

I think that this is possible. I hooked up my sony thru the VGA port on the tv not thru component like you say you are doing and did not have any trouble getting 720p. I did have it where I was only using one monitor at a time and did not play around to get both up at same time doing different things.

 

[John]

The problem is that my two monitors are using the DVI ports, and my HDTV is hooked up via component. I can't seem to get the component signal to run at its own resolution, it always extends the resolution of one of the monitors.

 

[Pandur]

The gfx card has only two (internal) outputs IIRC so you can only use one DVI and tv-out at the same time if you want different resolutions. You're seeing that limitation since you'll have to run one of your DVI's at the same resolution as your tv-out.

So the quick answer to your question is: no you can't run two DVI and tv-out at the same time with different resolutions.