A few months back with the help of the “other sites” PCMR, I built my son a PC. He doesn’t like sitting at his desk though, and wants to turn it into a Lego diorama. We talked about moving his monitor elsewhere when his mom asked if it could hook up to the TV.

I was going to work on moving it tonight and testing it out but I was curious if there was anything special I needed to do first.

Its a Windows 10 PC, here are portions of the DXDIAG

Operating System: Windows 10 Home 64-bit (10.0, Build 19045) (19041.vb_release.191206-1406) Language: English (Regional Setting: English) System Manufacturer: Micro-Star International Co., Ltd. System Model: MS-7C95 BIOS: 2.C0 (type: UEFI) Processor: AMD Ryzen 5 5600 6-Core Processor (12 CPUs), ~3.5GHz Memory: 32768MB RAM Available OS Memory: 32694MB RAM Page File: 15361MB used, 22197MB available

Card name: AMD Radeon RX 6750 XT Manufacturer: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. Chip type: AMD Radeon Graphics Processor (0x73DF)

I just want to make sure I don’t need anything else for this to work right. With the big sales hitting tomorrow I am going to grab my son a wireless KB and Mouse, and anything else you all recommend.

Thank you for your time.

  • CatPoop@lemmy.worldEnglish
    10·
    1 year ago

    Should have no problems. Couple of things to check on the TV settings menu, make sure the zoom is set to ‘fit’ so that there is no border/overscan, if there is a ‘game’ or ‘low latency’ mode enable it; otherwise turn off all picture enhancements (e.g. LG clear view / image smoothing) as they are no bueno for gaming.

    • OldTreePuncher@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
      2·
      1 year ago

      Awesome thank you. His main use for this is Minecraft, Youtube, and movie streaming. We are cutting the cord in another month, so I am also getting my High Seas sailors license. (Nord VPN, Plex Server, etc)

      There are a ton of shows he loves to watch repeatedly (he is autistic), and I want to make sure he can access them until I get a chance to finish getting a plex server set up. Hopefully that all makes sense.

      • Spaceman Spiff@lemmy.fmhy.mlEnglish
        3·
        1 year ago

        Side note: Avoid Nord. If you aren’t using torrents, get Mullvad. If you are (and thus need port forwarding, which isn’t supported by Nord anyway), I’m not sure right now. Possibly AirVPN?

          • Overzeetop@lemmy.worldEnglish
            2·
            1 year ago

            I torrent but don’t stream torrents and I’ve used SurfShark 24/7 for 2+ years without issue (Xfinity in the US with Canada based vpn exit - never had a © strike). It’s been so long since I switched to SurfShark I don’t even know what the rest of the vpn landscape is like.