Video Card Suggestions

[AdmA]

Alright, I recently bought a new computer from DELL, and alas it has a piece of crap internal video card. I need a card that can display 852 x 480 (ENhanced Definition Resolution) A used card on eBay...or from someone here in the forums, would be perfect. Any suggestions? Looking for a relatively cheap solution...this doesnt need to be top of the line, just VGA out is good

[AdmA]

should have mentioned my PC needs a PCI Video Card. Thank you.

[cmcquistion]

If you ONLY have a PCI slot and no AGP or PCI-Express, then you're not going to have much luck with Beyond TV on that machine. BTV needs accellerated graphics and a PCI video card is not going to have adequate bandwidth and will struggle against other devices on the PCI bus.

[AdmA]

my bad, pci-e x1 is what i have

[cmcquistion]

Do you know if you have a PCI-Express x16 slot?

[Bigbird999]

What model is the Dell?

BB

[AdmA]

thanks for all the responses, everyone.

Its not PCI 16 unfortunately, just x1. I have a Dell 3100, specs found: http://support.dell.com/support/edoc...n/sm/index.htm

[cmcquistion]

PCI-E x1 are extremely rare. Newegg has only one card that fits in that slot. Here is a link:

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16814161017

It is a Radeon X1300 which should be enough for HTPC apps like Beyond TV.

[Bigbird999]

Google turned up this HIS - PCIe1x card that should have the power you need. http://72.14.209.104/search?q=cache:...ient=firefox-a

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[tscales]

By the way, the internal video on that machine isn't bad and WILL do that resolution. Go to Settings, Advanced, Adapter and click on List all Modes.

[tscales]

Oh, and I forgot. An nVidia FX5500 PCI card WILL work flawlessly with BTV, contrary to prior posts.

[AdmA]

I will check it out when I get home scales, thank you

[AdmA]

ok, when i go to list all modes, i see 852x480 grid, when i select it, my display says no imput signal and blacks out for about 10 seconds before it comes back with the 800x600 resolution. Do you guys have any suggestions? Do you think there is a driver for this monitor that will allow this? The model number is Panasonic
TH-42PWD8UK

Thanks

[cmcquistion]

You may have to use Powerstrip to set up a custom resolution, tweak the refresh rate, polarity, etc.

Do a search though AVSforums with that part number. Perhaps someone there has listed some tips for getting the optimal resolution.

This is what I did when I got my new Samsung DLP. The information I got in a thread at AVSforums got me 95% finished. I just had to tweak a little from there.

[AdmA]

power strip did not work for me... with this card it has the resolutions listed in this link. This means, these are the only resolutions this card will support correct? No possibility of my 852x480? http://www.chaintechusa.com/tw/eng/p...o=14&PISNo=201