Best HDTV 1080p cheap GFX ?

As in "The Witcher" or The Witcher 3 coming out soon? Cause max settings on #3 will bring a titan or 290X to its knees.
You can get a GTX 750Ti as a "super discount" GPU that will run nearly anything in 1080p at high settings perfectly well, but I dont know about maxed out.


Plasma Hz is still 60Hz, or 96Hz during specific bluray playback times. Newer ones can be overclocked to 96Hz for computer use though Basically any plasma TV that lists 96Hz playback of 24p content is capable of 96Hz refresh rate, you just have to force it to go there when using a PC. The whole 600Hz business is mostly marketing, because the base Hz is still 60 and plasmas do something called sub frame sampling. Most plasma do 10x subframe sampling, old cheaper ones do 8x sampling, really high end ones do 12x sampling. A TV with 12x would be listed as 720Hz. Panasonic has it's newest TVs that have something a little different though and I am not exactly sure on its inner workings yet, the new tech is called focused field drive and it is available in 2500Hz and 3000Hz refresh rates. I suspect base refresh is still 60Hz or a multiple thereof though.

 

99% of LCDs cannot do anything above 60Hz, even ones sold as 120 or 240 or even 480Hz displays. They use a 60Hz refresh rate and interpolate frames in between to give a higher perceived refresh rate. Somewhat similar to subfield sampling, but not as good in practice. The subfield sampling also does not add input lag, LCD interpolation adds lots of lag. There are only a few LCD TVs that can display a true 120Hz signal. If you have a last years model Panasonic plasma with FFD then you probably have the same TV I do (only bigger) and it should support 96Hz display. I have personally done this myself on a Panasonic TC-P55VT50. It will not damage the TV in any way because the TV is specifically designed to be able to support that feature, the firmware just tells the TV to only auto select it when a 24 frame per second signal is detected. The reason for this is syncing FPS with Hz gives the best smoothness, same as on a PC with 96Hz/48FPS. Except movies are 24fps and displaying 48Hz causes flickering on the display because the eye can see the refresh rate happening, so 96Hz is used instead to get rid of the flickering and still sync to a multiple of the framerate. 120Hz would also work to sync right but there are no plasma's yet that go that high.

If you do get 96Hz working for your HTPC, then you can use an Nvidia card once again with the adaptive half rate and then you only need to maintain 48fps instead of 60. a GTX770 would be awesome, but might be overkill unless you really do plan on a lot of gaming on the TV. A GTX760 would probably do well enough. and if you dont care to max out all settings then as I said before the brand new 750Ti will do nicely.


EDIT: if you look up your TV on Panasonic's site you should see something like this under the tech specifications:

That means it would support 96Hz