Put a 580 GTX in my home machine about two weeks ago which was running a 5870 connected to my 42". The 5870 and the 5850 before were always connected via hdmi. Now with the AMD cards this was just hdmi right into the card but now I have to have this extra cable because NV can't put a full size HDMI interface on their boards? WTF cheap bastages, $525 card.... grumble... Ok video working, screen not quite fitting right so go in to setup the screen as usual... it sees the proper screen, its set to 1080p, I use the adjustments and now I have a resolution of 1824x1026... hmmm ok. I guess this is more accurate but I've never seen this before with the AMD cards, or my 260 GTX, 8800 GTX, etc back when I had them on my 37" LCD but whatever. I open a game, and resolution is all blah. I go in to set it to
1080p but that looks wrong, so I have to set them to the 1824x1026 now to. I go into another and its the same thing. Obviously there are some overscan issues in my setup but clearly AMD handled it better because all I ever had to do was set it up in Windows once and then every game looked fine set to 1080p... so only slightly annoying.
Next peeve... I also have a 24" HP ZR24w I use with my work machine that works great with the 5870 because the 5870 has guess what, a display port. I went to a lan last weekend and knowing the cheap NV guys didn't give me a display port I picked up a Display port to HDMI cable figuring that should work. Well it didn't. I don't know if it was the hdmi to mini-hdmi adapter or just the 580 GTX mini-hdmi port can't talk display port but the two clearly don't get alone. Thankfully someone had a dvi to hdmi cable that did the trick. Had I the 5870 in my home machine I would never have had any of these issues but I had been AMD for a while and the 580 is definitely a nice performer. I just think its outputs are way to limited and out of date for a brand new top of the line card. When AMD had dual dvi, full hdmi, and display port on their last gen and all we get with NV is dual dvi (which who the hell needs these days really on a high end card) and a mini-hdmi? UGH...
/rant off
1080p but that looks wrong, so I have to set them to the 1824x1026 now to. I go into another and its the same thing. Obviously there are some overscan issues in my setup but clearly AMD handled it better because all I ever had to do was set it up in Windows once and then every game looked fine set to 1080p... so only slightly annoying.
Next peeve... I also have a 24" HP ZR24w I use with my work machine that works great with the 5870 because the 5870 has guess what, a display port. I went to a lan last weekend and knowing the cheap NV guys didn't give me a display port I picked up a Display port to HDMI cable figuring that should work. Well it didn't. I don't know if it was the hdmi to mini-hdmi adapter or just the 580 GTX mini-hdmi port can't talk display port but the two clearly don't get alone. Thankfully someone had a dvi to hdmi cable that did the trick. Had I the 5870 in my home machine I would never have had any of these issues but I had been AMD for a while and the 580 is definitely a nice performer. I just think its outputs are way to limited and out of date for a brand new top of the line card. When AMD had dual dvi, full hdmi, and display port on their last gen and all we get with NV is dual dvi (which who the hell needs these days really on a high end card) and a mini-hdmi? UGH...
/rant off