[mythtv-users] Decent, Inexpensive Video Card? (Yes, I did search)

Johan Reinalda johan at global.thunderbird.edu
Fri May 6 21:27:05 UTC 2005


bestbargainpc.com has an fx5200/128 with both tvout and dvi currently for 
$45 (including S&H.)  They are the Chaintec SH5200-128-DVI, with heat sink, 
and work great! (I have 2 of these)  I found them through pricewatch.com

Johan

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Garry Cook" <garrycook at gmail.com>
To: "Discussion about mythtv" <mythtv-users at mythtv.org>
Sent: Friday, May 06, 2005 1:48 PM
Subject: Re: [mythtv-users] Decent, Inexpensive Video Card? (Yes, I did 
search)


> On 4/22/05, Jonathan Watmough <jonathan.watmough at gmail.com> wrote:
>> I think the Kaser 5200FX is Fanless. I own a couple of these, one in
>> my Myth box, and one stuffed into my work machine driving a couple of
>> 19 in monitors.
>>
>> This card is $69.99 at Fry's and has VGA, S-Video and DVI outputs. A
>> S-Vid to composite connector is included, though sadly a DVI to VGA is
>> not.
>>
>> For what it's worth, the TV output of the ATI 9200 does look a bit
>> better to me (GF's setup with Win XP and VLC) but having tried to get
>> Linux running on it, I refuse to mess with ATI on Linux, and the
>> NVidia S-out is decent enough.
>>
>> Cheers
>> Jonathan
>>
>> On 4/22/05, Scott Farrand <scottfarrand at msn.com> wrote:
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> > There are 5200FX cards that are fanless… with DVI/SVID/VGA output.
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> > I want to know about other's success with DVI – HDMI for HD output… any
>> > success or failure out there with this?
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> >  ________________________________
>> >
>> >
>> > From: mythtv-users-bounces at mythtv.org
>> > [mailto:mythtv-users-bounces at mythtv.org] On Behalf Of Bryan Halter
>> >  Sent: Thursday, April 21, 2005 8:58 PM
>> >  To: Discussion about mythtv
>> >  Subject: Re: [mythtv-users] Decent, Inexpensive Video Card? (Yes, I 
>> > did
>> > search)
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> > I have an Nvidia 5200FX, comes in both PCI and AGP has DVI VGA and 
>> > S-Video,
>> > supports XvMC and if no monitor is detected on DVI or VGA dumps all 
>> > output
>> > to S-Video so there are no extra drivers needed.  Only down side is 
>> > there's
>> > a fan on it so its a bit noisier than the GF4***, though I'm not sure 
>> > if
>> > those support DVI.
>> >
>
> I picked up my FX5200 on ebay for $56 incl. shipping. It is made by
> Gigabyte Technologies, and is fanless. Works great.
>
> Garry
>


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