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[sojourner1]

I've been Googling for a couple hours and can't find anything that gives info if my ATI X1200 graphics chip in my Toshiba A215 notebook will support 1920X1080 HDTV resolution on an external 16:9 monitor. I'm only getting sale ads when I search any computer model name of computer anything.

Anyone know of a site that lists all the graphics chips or notebook models that will drive these nice big shiny new 16:9 HDTV quality 1920X1080 monitors? I just don't want to end up buying a monitor to find I can't use the 1920X1080 resolution for HDTV movies in the event my notebook doesn't have the capability, but it's very possible it can as it's a fairly new notebook. You can now download these huge torrents or use a big monitor as a HDTV set, but there are still only a small handful of seeders as this is fairly new and requires a fairly new computer or a huge hard disk. I'm running 720p HDTV movies with black bands in 16:9 mode, the lesser HD right now, but could run the 1080i movies if the notebook will support a 1920X1080 monitor.

[Ukon]

Your processor better be awesome....HD def content downloaded through torrents usually required quite a bit of processing power or a decent graphcis card that offloads some of the processing to the GPU....newer cards do...

I have a 1950 XT and older pentium D processor in a desktop...trying to upgrade the resolution to 1680x1050 on 720p usually causes it to run slowly....running 720 p is fine, but 1080p still runs slowly...I might upgrade the processor to a core 2 duo.

[Ukon]

Your processor better be awesome....HD def content downloaded through torrents usually required quite a bit of processing power or a decent graphcis card that offloads some of the processing to the GPU....newer cards do...

I have a 1950 XT and older pentium D processor in a desktop...trying to upgrade the resolution to 1680x1050 on 720p usually causes it to run slowly....running 720 p is fine, but 1080p still runs slowly...I might upgrade the processor to a core 2 duo.

[Jeff's Cigarettes]

I to have a Pentium D, 3.4ghz...but, I have a 3870 GPU and it passes 1080p to my 42' lcd w/out a hitch or any slow downs. It's gonna pretty much depend on how good ur gpu is.

[eamo]

I would guess for 1080p to run really smoothly you would need a minimum CPU of 3.0 ghz C2D.......and a GPU at or above the ATI HD3850 or Nvidia 9600GT.

You might get away with less though.....

[sojourner1]

I have an AMD Athlon 64 X2 TL-60 Dual Core 2.2 gigahertz processor with 2 gigabytes of RAM. I was mainly concerned if the ATI X1200 video graphics chip will run 1920X1080 video on an external monitor.

I find it strange that I could not find the technical specifications surrounding possible external monitor screen resolutions; only that the laptop screen has a maximum resolution of 1280X800.

Any ideas?

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[sojourner1]

[sojourner1]

Thanks for your inputs.

I just called the Toshiba tech support and they told me 1280X800 is indeed the max video resolution my notebook will drive any monitor. So it appears that getting a big fancy HDTV monitor is not in my near future, but a big fancy lessor HDTV 720P is what my computer will support. This is still a huge step up in movie and TV show quality as I've been downloading 720P HDTV movies and they are crystal clear compared to regular quality. Really, there are still very very few 1080i true HDTV torrents and even fewer seeders, but 720p is coming up in the world so I don't need the expensive cutting edge 1080i monitor. Will have to wait a year or two more for 1080i to really go mainstream.

I just wonder why I couldn't find an answer when researching the internet as I'm sure I'm not the only one to ask this question to make an informed purchase decision on a new external monitor. I bet a lot guys out there got 1080i and are not realizing its' potential while it runs only in 720p.

[Ukon]

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