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<blockquote data-quote="petsa" data-source="post: 492449" data-attributes="member: 29962">Hi Geoff,I have a 8600GT Silent in my HTPC and it has worked really well for me. Less of hassle than I understand many ATI-card owners have struggled with wrt drivers etc. It plays SDTV without any issues and for HDTV it does a nice job off-loading the CPU for h264 decoding.From Wikipedia: &quot;Because HDMI is electrically compatible with the signals used by Digital Visual Interface (DVI), no signal conversion is necessary, nor is there a loss of video quality when a DVI-to-HDMI adapter is used.&quot; so that should not be any issue either. I use DVI-&gt;HDMI for my Samsing 40&quot;.As for playing BF2... I occassionaly play FIFA09 on my 40&quot; LCD and it works OK. I guess the gfx card is not the top-of-the-line for gaming, since it is rather supposed to be silent than fast. It works OK but if your main interest is gaming on the PC I would suggest another card, but then you may suffer from more noise perhaps. As far as I know the 8600GT has been replaced with newer cards from Nvidia but I can not comment on their performance./Peter</blockquote>

[QUOTE="petsa, post: 492449, member: 29962"] Hi Geoff, I have a 8600GT Silent in my HTPC and it has worked really well for me. Less of hassle than I understand many ATI-card owners have struggled with wrt drivers etc. It plays SDTV without any issues and for HDTV it does a nice job off-loading the CPU for h264 decoding. From Wikipedia: "Because HDMI is electrically compatible with the signals used by Digital Visual Interface (DVI), no signal conversion is necessary, nor is there a loss of video quality when a DVI-to-HDMI adapter is used." so that should not be any issue either. I use DVI->HDMI for my Samsing 40". As for playing BF2... I occassionaly play FIFA09 on my 40" LCD and it works OK. I guess the gfx card is not the top-of-the-line for gaming, since it is rather supposed to be silent than fast. It works OK but if your main interest is gaming on the PC I would suggest another card, but then you may suffer from more noise perhaps. As far as I know the 8600GT has been replaced with newer cards from Nvidia but I can not comment on their performance. /Peter [/QUOTE]

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