PCI video card

[kramkandy]

Hi,

Can anyone recommend a PCI video card that i can temporary stick into my machine to be able run 1080p (1920x1080) smoothly. No need to run games or anything else. It will be only used for video playback.

Am i kidding myself? or will the old PCI cards do this ok?

Thanks for the help,

Cam

[logifuse]

Sorry, but I think you might be kidding yourself.

I would doubt that any recent GPUs are available in PCI. Do you not have AGP? There are mid 7XXX Nvidia cards in that.

Anyway, if you have a pre PCIe board, you're CPU is probably a bit under-powered for 1080p.

Justin

[vbmds]

Wanting to run 1080p pretty much kills off any hope of a PCI card fulfilling your requirements. If you can live without the 1080p, then you do have some recent, although several generations old, cards that do have DVI and TV out, for example Geforce FX5500 256MB DDR PCI - FX5500 - have a look near the bottom of the Features listing

DVD and HDTV-ready MPEG-2 decoding up to 1920 x 1080i resolutions

- so maybe...

Can you get one here in Oz, well that maybe another story

[TiggerK]

The main two cards around in PCI nowdays are a 256MB GeForce 6200, and the ATI X1550. Both under $100, but neither is going to handle 1080p I expect, although they're half decent cards for 720 and probably 1080i, but of course it'll also depend on your CPU.

PCI just doesn't have the bandwidth to run it all smoothly. It seems that even the 8xxx series cards on PCI-Ex16 have to do a bit of work, and even then the modern CPU is helping out. Not so simple for John.Q.PC this 1080p stuff it seems.....

Cheers
TiggerK

[kramkandy]

new mce will have to be built it seems....

Thanks for your help guys,