I currently have my old analog Samsung TX-R2435 tv hooked up to my desktop pc using an ATI Radeon X800 XL card with component output. The picture is great and looks very close to how arcade monitors look. Plus using a Pelican system selector I'm able to also hook up several consoles to the same tv via component and play arcade ports to complement the pc games.
I want to build a new updated pc and still hook up to this tv and I have several questions:
1) is the general consensus that I'll get the best quality analog component signal by continuing to use a graphics card that outputs component natively or are signal converters an option?
2) I'm having trouble finding which cards had component tv-out. There doesn't seem to be any list compiled which requires looking up the specs for every card. When you look up the specs for the X800 XL it doesn't even say that it outputs component when if fact it does, so the specs can be wrong sometimes. What were the last cards produced with component tv-out?
3) any hardware compatibility problems hooking up an older pci express card to a new skylake motherboard running windows 10? Will the old catalyst software run in windows 10?
Thanks for any advice!