Recomend me a Video Card

[isuzj]

Hey everyone,

Been building my DVR... w Avermedia card, but my video card is inadequate could i have a couple of recomendations for some good video cards

Not PCI express though

I have a Compaq Evo 510D

512 Ram

200G Mem

Pentium 4

[collin]

With AGP only you are going to have fewer options obviously. I ran an nvidia 6200 chipset card in my last system, it was adequate, but not the greatest. I think it came down to the driver being inadequate rather than hardware not being capable. I could never get the clarity that I have now with my new system and an nvidia 8400 card. If you are trying to run HD I don't know that there is an AGP card that is really up to the task, others may have actual experience with that though. Hope this helps...

[pBS]

sure, ati is probably only good choice for agp as nv didn't make any good hd ones for agp..
an ati HD 3600 would be easiest bet, does bluray and hd and accels fine, works with most decoders..
there are still a few all-in-wonder types that have an added hd tuner onboard available..
about same price as without a tuner, if you can still find them...
use driver cat 8.11 for xp, latest for vista/7...avivo decoder, cyberlink, ffdshow all look great on it..

next best would be a 3450, but for hd i wouldn't go any lower..[maybe a 2600]
i haven't really seen many 4xxx's for agp, so those might be impossible to find..
and stay away from pci types as they just don't seem to have good driver support anywhere..

[Reddwarf]

I'v used an ASUS/ATI 3450 agp with great success, both for SD and HD so I can confirm it does the job, only drawback is the cooling fan which tends to be a bit noisy after a while and needs dusting.

[adrian_vg@yahoo.com]

With AGP only you are going to have fewer options obviously. I ran an nvidia 6200 chipset card in my last system, it was adequate, but not the greatest. I think it came down to the driver being inadequate rather than hardware not being capable. I could never get the clarity that I have now with my new system and an nvidia 8400 card. If you are trying to run HD I don't know that there is an AGP card that is really up to the task, others may have actual experience with that though. Hope this helps...

I use an AGP Nvidia 6200 (latest driver installed; just the other day in fact) with GBPVR and my flatscreen. I don't see any problems showing hd-content. Granted, the hd-content is mostly avi-files, but still. The nvidia driver automatically sees the 1920x1080 flatscreen resolution and just goes about its business.

I guess YMMV...

[hasso]

For PCI, the HIS HD 4350 Video Card (Radeon HD 4350) works fine for me for both regular and HD playback.

[uniontown]

I have a compaq evo 530D SFF, p4, 2.8ghz, 1gb PC3200 memory, Windows xp, SP3 with an avermedia volar max usb tuner. Because the machine is old, with a small power supply, I put a Geforce FX5200 128mb in it as it was affordable and low profile. I run gbpvr ~47 and it does just fine. The primary reason for the card was to replace the onboard graphics, but at the same time keep the power drain, and the drain on my wallet low. I could not see putting anything more than a few bucks in the video card given the total worth of the machine [Seems like it was $15.00 or so on ebay]. In reality the volar max alone is worth more than the machine is worth. In any event the FX5200 is low profile, {with the right bracket], agp, and cheap, with the operative word being cheap. Did you ever notice that a high end AGP card goes for more than a pcie card whihc will be double or triple the memory and features. If the 510 can handle a full height card I have a hp xw4100 p4 2.8 hyperthreading computer 2gb PC3200 memory running 3 TV cards [analog emuzed maui, AVERMEDIA M150-D and a Haupauge PVR-150] with a ATI AGP 9550 256mb card. It too does fine using GBPVR. Again a relative inexpensive card on ebay, but it requires a larger power supply, but the HP XW4100 has a large power supply, unlike my compaq evo. This machine is used purely for capturing and recording cable TV. HOPE THIS HELPS

[arnoldarever]

I have a few suggestion of good video card hope either of them tends to be full filling all your expectation.The XFX Radeon HD 5770 , Sapphire Radeon HD 5750 , MSI GeForce GTX 260 Video Card and XFX Radeon HD 5850 are a few video cards available in the market.If price is not an issue you can even opt for taking PNY Quadro FX 3800 its really awesome.