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Do you use your video card?

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vbp6us

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Do you use your video card for anything besides gaming?

What can I do with my card? I have a BFG FX5900NU with an S-video port and a DVI(?) in the back. I know i can dual monitor but what else? Can i watch using my card?
 
Well, whenever I feel like a nice cup of coffee I just fire up CoD with all the eye candy, set my mug on the GPU, and wait.... also, it's actually quite good at prying nails out of boards. I usually shut the computer off for that one.
 
vbp6us, I believe your card (and most FX5900s) has VIVO.

You can capture video with it (to a degree).
 
Are you sure? Most use a S-Video like connection even for just video output these days. Primarily so it can have composite and s-video on the same plug and I guess so they can get away with charging you an extra $7 or so for a stupid dongle that costs them $1 to produce, tops.

Anyway, I like using the video output to watch anime and on rare occasions a DVD or two on my TV set, though I'm stuck with composite out unfortunately (TVs in this size with S-Video in are far too expensive.) Of course, with that note, I use my video card for watching videos (minor accelerations used, such as hardware motion compensation.)

DVI is a digital video connector primarily intended for plugging a LCD display in and getting higher quality video. Of course, as you said you already knew, it can be used to have two monitors because of that.
 
I use to excercise my 9800 Pro that would easily do 425/370 all day long when I'd play games like UT2003 but I havent played any games now in a few months at least.

that being that, I just leave her clocked at stock speeds and enjoy knowing the power's there should I need it.
 
I consider a Video Graphics Card just for Gaming.

I keep the Multimedia/tuner box crap on a seperate tuner card.

Less problems that way.

I own an ATI Radeon 9800 Pro (256 megger) with everything killed for dual monitor support and it's a non-AIW. So this means no problems. Seems most driver/card issues derived from Dual-monitor/capturing/tuner options - at least what I get from most newsgroups and forums discussing Video card problems.

Have you notice Nvidia totally avoid the AIW type cards entirely, hmm? :)
 
Originally posted by RipFlex
Have you notice Nvidia totally avoid the AIW type cards entirely, hmm? :)
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Nope, never noticed while I was using the ViVo on my previous two nVidia cards.
 
The FX Nvidia cards make great central heating for winter :p :D J/k
Just could'nt resist lmao
 
I plug my vcr or vhs camera into it and fire up windows movie maker and make movies (gonna be a big film director someday,move over WOTR):eek:
 
Originally posted by @trapine
The FX Nvidia cards make great central heating for winter :p :D J/k
Just could'nt resist lmao
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So do the 9800 XT.

But I don´t know how that could be considered negative. More heat means higher clock numbers which is true with the FX series.
The only downside is noise of course.
 
So do the 9800 XT.

But I don´t know how that could be considered negative. More heat means higher clock numbers which is true with the FX series.
The only downside is noise of course
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JOKE GEEZ:rolleyes: stop being so anal about everything:rolleyes:
 
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