dual monitors video card recommandition

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Orddie

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Hey all,

I currently have a single XFX ATI Radeon HD 5770 card.

This card keeps me kinda happy running WoW and the beta of star wars @ max settings around 30FPS (can provide screen shots for you board flamers...)

Yesterday I got a second monitor and wanted to watch TV on one monitor and play wow / star wars on the other.

WoW and star wars ran fine... TV was jittery. As soon as I shutdown the game the TV went to normal.

Using MSI afterburner I see my GPU at 65% for HDTV and wow around 80%.

So I know I need to upgrade... but the question is... to what?
 
Shot in the dark, but can you disable GPU acceleration in whatever you are using to play videos? That may fix your issues.
 
It's windows media center. Not sure if that is an option or not.

I have a Ceton 4 tuner card in my computer which is what I'm using through media center to watch live TV.
 
check your gpu clocks with gpu-z while watching tv, then turn that off and watch the clocks again.. see if they change.
 
Today w/ wow settings set to fair... my cpu is @ 85%.
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but... my gpu clock is 800mhz.. gpu sensors tab is reporting only 400mhz
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Not sure about that, but being a cable card your options are limited. What is your CPU?
 
im lost by what your saying.

my issue here is not with the tv tuner card. It's w/ my ATI video card not being able to drive wow and HDTV at the same time.

Is anyone able to provide a suggestion as to which card would be able to do such a thing?
 
jjandrob said:
im lost by what your saying.

my issue here is not with the tv tuner card. It's w/ my ATI video card not being able to drive wow and HDTV at the same time.

Is anyone able to provide a suggestion as to which card would be able to do such a thing?
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HD 6870 maybe?
 
jjandrob said:
im lost by what your saying.

my issue here is not with the tv tuner card. It's w/ my ATI video card not being able to drive wow and HDTV at the same time.

Is anyone able to provide a suggestion as to which card would be able to do such a thing?
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I run TV tuner cards myself, and from experience they are not all created equal. I had crappy cards that take up so many CPU cycles it wouldn't matter *WHAT* video card I was using, the display would stutter if I was browsing at the same time let alone playing something like WoW. The very fact that your GPU isn't at 100% implies to me that if it is stuttering perhaps you have a CPU and not a GPU problem. For the record, I was playing the SWTOR beta at 2560x1600 and watching TV thru my ATI TV Wonder 650 PCI-E tuner card simultaneously without problems.
 
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