I am going to connect my PC with my TV using HDMI as I have managed to get myself a super thin HDMI cable to do this with so that its practically invisible but I need a GFX card with HDMI to do this.
1. Can I run a 2nd gfx card in my machine without it interfering with my main GFX ??
2. How would I switch between them to tell 1 display (TFT monitor) to use the main card and the 2nd display (TV) to use the other one.
3. Recommend me a cheap HDMI card for me PC
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1. Only way I can see you doing this is by either having an AGP and PCI-E slot and switching between the 2 in the BIOS but obviously requires rebooting, the only other way would be running 2 of the same cards in either Cross-Fire for ATI or SLI for Nvidia.
2. As 1 really interms of BIOS but if using SLI or Cross-Fire Im not up to date with the technology in whether you can switch displays or whatever. However there is another way you can buy DVI to HDMI cables like I have for my TV plus youll need a cable for the sound as my TV comes with a specific HDMI port and sound in for this function. Or you could buy a HDMI to DVI adapter which would do the same job but allow you to use the HDMI cable youve bought, and just use both displays on the same graphics card which is what my setup is.
3. Not sure pretty certain theres both Nvidia and ATI cards out there with this ability although I think atm only the ATI's have the sound decoder on there chip but I'm pretty certain its coming to Nvidia cards very soon as well, but best off having a look as it will be a specific card youll be after but be warned if a card says its HDCP compatible this dosnt mean it has a HDMI port just means the DVI port is HDCP compatible so will play protected content.
Last edited by D3s3rt_F0x on Tue Oct 02, 2007 6:37 pm, edited 1 time in total.
btw you can use one video card to do what you want, my 2600XT comes with its own dvi-hdmi converter which carries sound and in the ati vivo settings you can set the second display to (eg TV) be where your video gets sent.
