Stuttering LiveTV with HVR1600

[re-Barr]

Let me preface this with the fact that the computer I am talking about does not run GBPVR.

My 2400 does not have a pci express slot in it. All mine has is pci. If I remember correctly I could have bought an upgrade that would have put an AGP video card in it. But i am not seeing a separate video card listed in the original description so I would not expect to see an AGP slot inside that machine. As a side note I had to chuckle at the fact that dell has listed in the description Heatsink... ooo never got one of those on the computer before. Wait, yes I have.

I put a 5200 in my machine a couple years ago and was greatly underwhelmed (cheap and met specs for a game). I think I have to suggest not wasting the money on a 5200 for HD. SD It could do but HD... probably won't be much of an improvement over what he has.

And as far as the Powercolor Radeon card goes the first reveiw I saw on NewEgg was about how the guy hated it on his HTPC.

Seems somewhere I read on this forum that you really need an nVidia GeForce 7xxx series or greater for stable HD. or whatever the ATI equivilant is.

[baj1]

Thanks to those of you who responded via PM which did not show up here. So it would appear the thinking here is that a PCI card is not a worth-while gamble, even though it should improve performance with the dedicated memory, vs the shared memory of the on-board chip set.

So if they pursue a new PC, are the newer integrated video chip sets still something to avoid? The Intel X4500HD is suppose to be HD capable, but given that it's "integrated" it must still share RAM with the system, and therefore have to share the bus to the RAM with the CPU. Comments?