I've had good luck with the GeForce 210. You can get fanless models if desired. I would avoid ATI as nVidia cards seem to be much better supported. <span></span><br><br>On Thursday, August 29, 2013, Stephen P. Villano wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">I have a venerable Dell Dimension 530-MT that I'm using as my MythTV<br>
backend. I occasionally view programs through it, but largely view<br>
programs from a remote front end.<br>
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The video card failed, an ancient Nvidia unit and I have a really<br>
ancient card in the computer now. Any suggestions on a decent,<br>
inexpensive AGP or PCI card for that box to give acceptable frame rates<br>
(some videos give spectacularly poor performance, many give acceptable<br>
performance)?<br>
Been out of the hardware world for a handful of years, so I've lost track.<br>
Thoughts on the Jaton ATI Radeon HD5450 512MB DDR3 card? I'd like to<br>
keep the option for HDMI open, if reasonably possible.<br>
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