Make sure the resolution is 640x480 and try chaning the refresh rate. Also some TV's especially older ones can't be used as monitors and theres nothing that you can do about it.darkplayer

It worked with my old XP-based computer and it had a FX5500, so it should still... Oh, I forgot, I got vista now...

I just installed a ASUS ATI HD3870 and the new 8.3 driver and catalyst-center and I'm just testing around a bit with it.

I got to the part where I want to connect my tv to my computer (my dvd-player doesn't play divx, apparently) and it works (even that's better than with my old 8600GT), but the image on my tv is in black and white. I checked everything I could change in the catalyst-center, but it stayed black and white.

I connected my tv with my pc with the s-video connection on my card, but with a cable that changes into composite (that yellow thing, not so sure about the name). My tv is quite an old one. It's a crt (? don't know how you call it, but it's a big box that 'flashes' the image on your screen) and in PAL.

Does anyone know how to fix the black and white problem? I could just boot my pc with only my tv connected, but that isn't really the practical solution.

I think I have broken my firewire port on my motherboard.
It doesn't recognize my camera when I connect it with a Firewire cable. With my old pc, it works, the only difference in software is that it was XP and my new pc is vista.

But before I do something with my computer, I want to test wether my firewire-port is really broken, or wether it's a software porblem. Does anyone know how to test my firewire-port?

Well, I just bought a Black Power LPG19. It has 580Watt and 23A on the +12V.
The guy at the store said it would definetily be enough, since I wouldn't use crossfire. But then again the same guy said I should pay for a new mobo, an extra hdd (for RAID) and a different type of RAM (800mhz instead of 667mhz) to increase my pc's speed, instead of a new gpu...
Anyway, do you think this will be enough? Oh, and I only have PCI-E1.0, so no extra power through there (if it would even use that, I don't know)

The wattage doesnt matter as long as your 12v rails have at least 26 amps. If you dont have that much of parts and you dont OC your hardware then a poweful 350w can run this card and im taking from areal expereince from my friend's pcSearchMaster

What happens if I don't have enough amps? Will my gpu just be underperforming, or mayby something else?

How much amps does a ATI HD3870 512MB DDR4 need on a 12V-rail?

Waiting for an announced card with finalized specs and initially favorable performance tests is different than waiting for a vague hint, especially if you have a card that's at least decent.

Still, buying now isn't necessarily a bad thing. Personally, I'd probably shoot the HD3870, since I do like silence in my machine. Still, from a pure performance perspective, the 8800GT is the better card.

RayvinAzn

I only have a PCI-E1.0 slot in my pc, will that somewhat affect the performance of a PCI-E2.0 performance card? Will I still have the same results as you can see on benchmarks on the internet?

I didn't mean buy a budget card, I meant think about how much you want to spend, then select your graphics card based on that, rather than try to adjust your budget for your graphics card.

Your 8600GT isn't a terrible card to be quite honest, but it could certainly use some work. I'd probably hold off for a few more months before buying - we might see some more very attractive 512MB cards below $200, and that's where the best price-performance ratios are usually found.

RayvinAzn

Waiting is always said to be the best solution, but nobody does it. In a few months everybody will be saying: "Wait a few months, then ATI will bring out its HD4-series, with much better price/performance ratios."

And besides, in a year and a half, I will (hopefully) be at the university, so then I won't have much time to play games. I want to enjoy gaming for the next year and a half, then I will see what I will do.

And about my budget: it's €200-€250. Something like that, but it's very flexible. There are actually two cards I might consider buying: the 8800GT 512MB and the HD3870 512MB.
I don't think I will really use the extra performance from the 8800GT, and the HD3870 has dx10.1 support (that will make it able to play future games at decent quality).

Sorry, but with the RAID thing, I meant I didn't need more bandwith.

I currently have a ZOTAC 8600GT 256MB. Why would a budget card make me happier? My budget isn't really a problem (I'm still a kid, so I don't have to pay for any bills or groceries), but I just don't want to spend money on something I don't need, like RAID.

For the card, I would like 512MB of RAM and a card that will be able to play games that aren't extremely demanding (like Crysis), in a year and a half. And with games that aren't extremely demanding, I mean games like Bioshock, but then the newer, 2009-versions.

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Oh? Even when your RAM runs 20% faster?

He also said something about being more compatible with my q6600.He said it would run as a real quad-core, while it now runs as two dual-cores. And he said that the p35 supports raid, while mine doesn't (and that last part is definitely true, because I could check that myself). And when I buy a new graphics card, it will be PCI-E2.0, and it will support that too.

RayvinAzn

RAM running 20% faster doesn't make a comptuer run 20% faster. Hell, you'd be lucky to score an extra frame-per-second in games that run over 80FPS already, if that.

Your chipset doesn't affect your processor. The Q6600 is two dual-quad-core chips no matter what chipset it's on, this guy really doesn't know what he's talking about. You should check to make sure your P965 board is quad-core compatible before you install one though, there are some P965 boards that aren't compatible with quad-core chips. Even so, it's not worth upgrading from a decent Core 2 Duo to a Core 2 Quad, at least not until we see some cheaper Yorkfield chips, and even then it's probably better just to wait for Nehalem or whatever AMD has out by then.

RAID is nice, but are you going to use it? Seriously now, that's a feature very few users need, and even then it has its cons. And besides, there are P965 boards that support RAID too. Really, it'd probably be better just to buy a RAID card if you want better performance out of your hard drives.

PCI-e 2.0 is NOT present on the P35 chipset, at least not in any boards currently on the market. Only X38 has PCI-e 2.0 on the Intel side of the house.

So it's not worth the money to upgrade? I was also having my doubts about RAID, because I never really hear my HDD work in games, only on the loading screens.

So the best thing for me to do (to get more fps in games) is to upgrade my graphics card instead of my mobo. So what do you suggest? A dx10 8800gt or a dx10.1 hd3870/3850?