Full HD 1080p not well diplayed on my HD monitor ??

adindas

Dear All

I have dual core 2.2GHZ PC 5GB RAM running on windows 7 platforms that I have been having it for quite a few years now. I have been using it to play video file with different format for resolution up to 720p without any problem. I just bought Philips Full HD monitor 1080p.
I just find it out, when I am trying to play full HD 1080p on my new monitor. There is a delay and, slow down of moving pictures displayed on my monitor. I have been trying to find out what is going wrong and how to resolve this?
Is the fault in display due to the graphics card on my PC has low resolution so it cannot cope with 1080p? If so how do I resolve it, do I need to buy a graphics card with full HD resolution 1080p?
Is my computer is too old so it cannot be used to play 1080p with 1080p full HD monitor?
Any other possibilities that I am not aware of.
Thank you very much for all your help you have been all very helpful.

System

what graphics card do you have in the system?

bod1467

What GFX card do you have, and how are you connected to the monitor? Does it support 1080p?

Edit: SNAP!

NiftyDigits

Brand name and model number will help us to identify your machine's configuration.

adindas

Thanks to all of you guys

Unfortunately there is not any information or label on the graphics card that I could see on the motherboards. Is there anyway I could see the graphics card from windows menu ??. If so please let me know and I will have a look on this and report it to here.

About the Model, the one I have is Dell Optilex, similar to this

http://www.amazon.com/Dell-Optiplex-755-Desktop-Featuring/dp/B007ZFE1IU

I have upgraded the RAM from original 2GB to 5GB.

NiftyDigits

If it is that exact model the you can get a PCI Express Graphics Card. £20 should do it. Example

If you wish to know your model and configuration, look here.

S0litaire

All graphics card will be able to output to a 1080p screen! (it's not that large in PC terms!)

But you may have problems when it comes to video playback / Flashy desktop enhancements like Windows "Aero desktop" that requires the graphics card itself to do the graphics.

With cheaper cards the CPU has to help the video card to do that and that slows down the entire system. (commonly knows as "Software rendering")

ANY video card made in the past 5 year should be able to give you "Hardware rendering" that's where graphics card can handle all the desktop and video displays leaving the CPU to do other tasks.

A cheap £20 graphics card will do wonders if it's mainly for HD video playback.

In my old system the CPU had to run at 85%-95% to playback 720p video and could not even play 1080p faster than 1 frame every 5 seconds!.
But when i upgraded the on-board graphics with a cheap Nvidia card, the CPU dropped down to 5%-10% when playing 1080p since the graphics card was doing all the hard work!

adindas

Thanks to all of you.
Apparently I will need to update the graphics card.

Knowing this, another issue here come to mind. I will be buying a 42" wide screen TV which with Media Player I could use to watch HD video. Considering that I could get a media player for about £30-40, so I will have opportuntity to just stick my memory stick into the media player and play full HD video on the wide screen TV.

Just asking again your expert opinion.
I have scheduled to replace my old PC with the new one in about a year time. Which one do you recommend. Still invest a graphics card on old PC (which will be replaced in a year time) or buy a media player and play all of HD video on TV ?.

Thanks again for your time.

S0litaire

Personally I'd invest in the graphics card.
A media player can be good/easy way to go. But I've found that the cheep ones can be a bit temperamental about what types of file formats they play. (avi,mpg ,mkv).