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<blockquote data-quote="globaldonkey" data-source="post: 322428" data-attributes="member: 49844">Well, this is a little off topic, but thought I would share that I had originally settled on an ASUS-P5E-HDMI-VM, which is a G35 chipset board. Now there is a bad choice for HD through HDMI, and hence why I have been interested in this discussion. Worked ok as 1280 x 768 through VGA, but HDMI was horrible. Could not get 1920 x 1080 without massive overscan that could not be corrected by the driver or Powerstrip, the resolution would reset to 800 x 600 every time the display was switched off (although I did manage to fix this by disabling some crappy persistence thing that the Intel driver was loading at startup), and there was this judder in live TV that I could not get rid of.So yesterday I went and bought a $50 ATI 3450 card to replace the G35 for graphics. I figured it was of roughly the same vintage as the 780G chipset. I wasn't expecting great things from this card, and I have not gone into getting DXTA working but the results are simply amazing so far. Full 1920 x 1080 without overscan, no resolution resets and no more judder. Just brilliant TV that rivals my HD Setup box, and perfect HD movies. And all that with a cheap entry level card. The ATI drivers are just so much more configurable than the Intel rubbish, and it has certainly has made me think that the ATI GPU's are superior to Intel.I don't know if this is a story about integrated chipsets in general, or just the Intel ones, but I certainly agree that some of the early HDMI mobo's leave a lot to be desired.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="globaldonkey, post: 322428, member: 49844"] Well, this is a little off topic, but thought I would share that I had originally settled on an ASUS-P5E-HDMI-VM, which is a G35 chipset board. Now there is a bad choice for HD through HDMI, and hence why I have been interested in this discussion. Worked ok as 1280 x 768 through VGA, but HDMI was horrible. Could not get 1920 x 1080 without massive overscan that could not be corrected by the driver or Powerstrip, the resolution would reset to 800 x 600 every time the display was switched off (although I did manage to fix this by disabling some crappy persistence thing that the Intel driver was loading at startup), and there was this judder in live TV that I could not get rid of. So yesterday I went and bought a $50 ATI 3450 card to replace the G35 for graphics. I figured it was of roughly the same vintage as the 780G chipset. I wasn't expecting great things from this card, and I have not gone into getting DXTA working but the results are simply amazing so far. Full 1920 x 1080 without overscan, no resolution resets and no more judder. Just brilliant TV that rivals my HD Setup box, and perfect HD movies. And all that with a cheap entry level card. The ATI drivers are just so much more configurable than the Intel rubbish, and it has certainly has made me think that the ATI GPU's are superior to Intel. I don't know if this is a story about integrated chipsets in general, or just the Intel ones, but I certainly agree that some of the early HDMI mobo's leave a lot to be desired. [/QUOTE]

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