Cheap-ish video card recommendation

[Dan Ritter]

On Sat, Dec 26, 2009 at 03:11:09PM -0500, David Kramer wrote:
> I recently built a mythtv front end whose video card (random card from
> my basement) isn't cutting it.  I can't get 3D/acceleration or
> widescreen working with it, and it's hooked up to the PC port of my
> livingroom TV.
> 
> The motherboard is old enough that it takes AGP 8X, which is a little
> harder to find these days (everything's PCIe).  The only ones I've found
> around are ATI, and I've had compat problems with ATI's lately,
> especially since xorg has been removing older drivers from the distro,
> and the proprietary driver won't work with the ATI card in there now.
> Because of that, I'm leaning towards nvidia, but if you know for a fact
> that an ATI card is supported with the proprietary driver, I'm willing
> to listen.
> 
> Again, this doesn't have to be anything fancy, since I'm not doing
> gaming on it.  I would even consider a used one.

For an AGP motherboard and MythTV, you want either an NVideo
5200 or a PCI 8400. The first can do XvMC, and the second can do
VDPAU. The 5200 will be cheaper; you can get a fanless one from
NewEgg for about $30.

-dsr-

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