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Installing... and afterwards reboot the PC.
Once we booted into windows again .. we have everything working. Quickly set your preferred monitor resolution and you are good to go. Now the thing with HD screens is that they can under or overscan a little. In this case after setting the screen resolution to 1920x1080 we had a perfect fit.
One thing was missing... despite your TV displaying 19x10... it will always display at the HD screens native resolution. In this case the TV (and most screens have it) has a 1,366x768 resolution. The driver would not allow us to set this native resolution. Not a huge issue... but if you plan to use the HD screen as monitor... you really want your pixels fixed.
Remember this... 1920x1080 or not... if your native screen resolution is 1366x768 then your display will always convert, or scale, it to fit its native resolution.
Right we arrived at the point where we need to prep the PC for media playback. After installation of the drivers, depending on your purpose I recommend you to try out and install PureVideo. Next to that install the codecs you need to get your content playing .. and enjoy..
I adore media center... it's far from perfect but suits my needs really well with PureVideo and some codecs installed. I can playback anything with a small remote. Here we have the new Shrek 3 HD trailer.
You should not forget that with NVIDIA's drivers you can tweak colors, contrast, gamma and very importantly... image sharpness. Play around with it for a while until you are satisfied.
Another example... the movie Jarhead .h264 encoded... mind you that taking photo's of a display decoding HD really doesn't do any justice to what you see on screen.
Right ... the installation of HDMI at a HD screen was flawless... not more difficult or simple than usual. So that's really good stuff to experience.
Let's have a look at the card itself performance wise. Obviously it's not the biggest performer on the block... but for the 110 EUR you most certainly can play a game or two with it.
