TechBits 8 - Specs to Consider When Buying a Video Card

I this episode of TechBits, I cover some basic video card specifications and what they mean. A better understanding of the specs should help you to choose the video card that is right for you.

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Category:

Science & Technology

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• Jeremy
• Blum
• techbits
• ultimate
• computers
• GPU
• nvidia
• ati
• PCI
• express
• RAM
• GHz
• HDMI
• DVI
• DisplayPort
• GDDR3
• GDDR4
• GDDR5

[exoticg9]

which marc of board is better ? ASUS OR ASROCK ?

[sciguy14]

@exoticg9 They are both good brands - It's really a matter of what specs are available from each company.

[gunraykilla]

should i get a faster memory clock and sacrifice the amount of stream processers? or slower clock but like 6 times the stream processers?

[sciguy14]

@gunraykilla Depends what you're doing, but I'd go for the stream processors.

[LLOYD19851012]

Wrong with the HDCP. I used to play blu-rays on a VGA monitor, it did not support HDCP but I could still play Blu rays just fine.

[sciguy14]

@LLOYD19851012 I doubt that, unless you were using a special adapter cable that could handle the HDCP encryption.

[MDCavalier]

Hi there,

Just wanted to tell you about one of your last comments.

This is my specs (not on purpose of course and not for long) that I have already for a few months:

Gigabyte 990FXA-UD7

Dual Gigabyte HD 6990 (this is not a mistake, two 6990 cards)

Corsair Force 3 SSD

Mushkin 2 x 4GB PC3 16000

And a superold Sempron 140 (Single core 2.7Ghz 45nm CPU)

And I have to say that not high end games like L4D2 or TF2, I can run on full specs with none performance problems. (But have problems browsing XD)

[kt19961996]

You are sure a robot with a huge amount of data but dont know about ur dancing as on ur shirt !!

[exoticg9]

@sciguy14 Tanks bro.

[gunraykilla]

@sciguy14 i already bought the card the card i was going for but bassicly, its GTS 450 Superclocked, or HD Radeon 5770 Juniper XT

[gunraykilla]

@elmasraziel i feel your pain, my Nvidia 6600 is bottlenecking the hell out of my AMD athlon2 x2 3.2ghz regor. pretty powerful cpu for a budget gaming setup, im gonna be savin up for a radeon HD 5770 :DDD

[daviddellsperger]

@sciguy14 LLOYD is right, vga does not need HDCP support in order to play Blu-Rays or other protected content. it's an analog connection and can not encrypt digital video. The reason for this is that VGA quality is 1024 x 768 which is less than HD, which is why HDCP support was not required for a VGA connection.