I want to buy a the best graphics card for my system. The issue I am having is my games are not at there full graphics potential and when I watch instant online movies from netflix which are supposed to be in HD I find the picture is not at it's full HD potential. Please show me 2 to 4 options and if there is a noticeable difference between the options. Also I connect to my HD TV via HDMI with the onboard graphics. If I crossfire will I still be able to use the HDMI plug on the comp or will I have to make sure the video card has an HDMI plug out option. I tried DVI and vGa and I get no luck connecting to my tv so I really hope the onboard HDMI plug will work with a new card. Will using crossfire really improve the picture quality more then if I just use the card alone. I believe it will but I am not sure. When using crossfire do you use the full potential of the card and onboard graphics together. Anyway Please help and I hope I didn't write to much. Here is my system info. The slot for the Hybrid CrossfireX compatible card is PCI Express 2.0 x 16 Slot. I did fit an Nvidia GeForce 8400 GS which is a PCI-E 1.0 so I am not sure what the difference is because my manual says PCI Express 2.0 x 16 Slot. The Nvidia card was not good enough and is not crossfire compatible. The manual also says the system requests an ati radeon HD2400, HD3400 Series, or ATI Mobility Radeon HD 3400 Series graphics processor. This manual was made in June 2009 so I would think there would be better and newly updated and upgraded cards then the ones I just listed. Your help would be greatly appreciated. What is the newest most updated card for crossfire. Sorry for so much.
Here is my mobo.MSI 785GM-E65 8GB Ram. AMD 785G integrated chipset. Onboard graphics is ATI Radeon 4200.
Processor AMD Phenom II, Athlon Processors with AM3 socket. 6 processors total. 4 Dimms support for DDr3-1600(OC)/1333/
1066 MHz up to 16GB max. Power supply Max 480 watts. Hard Drive is a Seagate 1TB and 1 slave drive at about 300GB. Willing to spend $100 to $250. will maybe spend more if it will make a considerable difference.
Thank you and God Bless in advance.
Here is my mobo.MSI 785GM-E65 8GB Ram. AMD 785G integrated chipset. Onboard graphics is ATI Radeon 4200.
Processor AMD Phenom II, Athlon Processors with AM3 socket. 6 processors total. 4 Dimms support for DDr3-1600(OC)/1333/
1066 MHz up to 16GB max. Power supply Max 480 watts. Hard Drive is a Seagate 1TB and 1 slave drive at about 300GB. Willing to spend $100 to $250. will maybe spend more if it will make a considerable difference.
Thank you and God Bless in advance.