Vid card for X1250 replacement

dancer89 · **19th October 2007, 09:35 AM**

Hi, i am looking at a replacement video card for the o/b X1250 of the GA-MA69GM-S2H.

I am looking at either an ATI HD2400Pro or an Nvidia 8400GS

The rest of the specs are as follows:
Amd X2 4200+
GA-MA69GM-S2H Mobo
2gb Ddr2 667 Generic
1x samsung 80gb O/s
1x seagate 320gb Recordings
Dvd Burner
Antec Fusion Black Case
Teretec DT2400 PCI-e Twin Tuner

This will connect to both a 17" lcd via DVI and a 68cm CRT tv over s-video or component if it will let me, at a res of 1024/786.

Any help would be appreciated, thanks, regards Michael.

dgaust · **19th October 2007, 10:59 AM**

Which brands of card are you looking at specifically?

The one thing you have to be careful of is the size of the heatsink on the card if you go for a passive cooled one. Seeing as you have a mATX motherboard you probably won't want to be blocking slots with a two slot card.

Yesterday I, on the spur of the moment, picked up a Gigabyte 8600GT with the silent pipe heatsink and it is about 5mm too high for the fusion case. The top cover no longer fits on. Nothing a little modification won't fix, but something you'll have to consider.

dancer89 · **19th October 2007, 11:16 AM**

Prob just go with one of the Xpertvision ones, as noise is not of much concern.

ATI video cards
It's the 1st xpert 2400pro on the list

Nvidia video cards
It's the 1st Xpert 8400 on the list

The cost of either of those is $49 ex, so it's not expensive.
I had though of getting both and trying them both, but would like your thoughts as well.

dgaust · **19th October 2007, 11:36 AM**

Well, personally I would go with the nvidia card.

In saying that, I have no recent experience with MCE2005 as I've been using Vista for quite a while now. In Vista each card has issues that might be a deal breaker but I don't think these issues exist in 2005 (i.e. no FF&REW in DVR-MS or a green screen on HD with ATI, but with nvidia there is not custom resolution option).

Hopefully someone else who's using MCE2005 will be able to help.

mcopas · **28th November 2007, 12:09 PM**

What is the problem you are having with the onboard video?

jimbojumbo · **3rd January 2008, 07:21 AM**

Quote:

Originally Posted by mcopas

What is the problem you are having with the onboard video?

I had to replace my o/b x1250 as it wouldn't play HD TV channels . Replacing it with an old 7300gs sorted the problem!

dgaust · **3rd January 2008, 08:26 AM**

Why wouldn't it play HD channels? My x1250 did it perfectly well (after the green screen issue was fixed with a microsoft hotfix).

jimbojumbo · **3rd January 2008, 09:59 AM**

Quote:

Originally Posted by dgaust

Why wouldn't it play HD channels? My x1250 did it perfectly well (after the green screen issue was fixed with a microsoft hotfix).

Dunno, after a couple of days of fruitless driver updates and googling I changed the card and it worked.

A longer post here (No Ten HD)