Thursday, April 26, 2012

Planning to connect my PC with an Nvidia Geforce 9800GT video card to a TV, need some help?

As stated, the video card is an Nvidia Geforce 9800GT, here is the page with info and specs



http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814130435



its handled great in my PC



Me and a friend will be moving into an apartment within the next 3 months, and we are not very keen on adding a satellite or cable bill to our rent,internet,and utilities. So we figured this would be a beautiful substitute.



(note:along with the card came a cable that connects to the Svideo and turns into what looks like RCA jacks, but they are not red,white,and yellow, they are red,blue,and green, and it looks like you plug jacks into them rather than vice versa)



So the main points I would like some insight on are these:



1.http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16889253200



I assume that this TV can have a PC connected to it, however, I don't necessarily know the best way to go about it, and also, what would be the best way to pull this one off.



If this TV doesn't work for what I'm trying to do, please, do point me in the direction of one that could, it would be very helpful.



2.If the above TV is sufficient for my needs, what adapters/cables/etc. would I need to complete the task



Any help would be greatly appreciated of course|||Nah mate, you don't want to do that... the reason why is that graphics card has DVI or S-VIDEO that would look horrible when blown up to 32". The resolution on DVI ans epically S-Video are Horrible..



I have a GForce 8600GT hooked up to my 52" plasma with VGA and it is really clear but you would want to go with ONLY VGA or HDMI from computer to TV. I tried DVI and S-Video and it looked really bad... don't spend the money



Here are some cards on Newegg that would work with a TV that has a VGA input... the best would be HDMI but the graphics cards would be a lot and it seems like you don't want to spend too much...



http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.as…

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.as…



There are VGA to Component adapters but they are around 50 - 80 bucks so it would be the same if you bought a better graphics card... e-mail me if you have more questions..|||If you have just a plain s-video cable (http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.as… then you just plug that cable into the back of the tv(the one you're looking at has an s-video port on the back). You will also need an aux. cable (http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.as… because s-video don't transfer sound. The aux. cable just plugs into the sound port on the back of the comp. and then into the back of the TV.

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