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Dat
23rd May 2002, 00:24
Hi, i wanna watch divx movies on my TV using a TV out, but im not sure which card to go for... the cheaper the better because i never play games or anything that uses heavy GFX.

Can someone reccommend me one? and if so give me a rough price of it (im in the UK) :D

Thanks in advance,

Dat

murattttt
23rd May 2002, 08:35
Ati of course, when you buy an Ati GFX card you don't need any additional software to get a superb output to TV. Just do not buy anything lower than Radeon 7500 with DDR ram (they have GPU as geforce cards have and rival with Geforce 2 mx cards).
Maybe you can go for Ati all in one solutions (the ones with the TV tuner built in) if you are into capturing TV shows .

They are around 70 $ in Turkey without tax and I think it's a garbain.

Just try to buy a complete set with all the connectors and wires and adapters that are suitable to your TV. Scart or s-video outputs, long enough cables and switchers blah blah blah...

Good luck, I have a TV out but I have never used it. My TV is worse than my PC monitor. :D

chemmajik
23rd May 2002, 09:33
Well for no gaming I recommend the RadeonVE ddr 64m, its perfect for just plain video work, plus it decodes mpeg2 & dvds with no problems. If you have a 1Ghz or faster you can still play some games, but if you play any diablo2 don't get this card get the 7500 or gf3ti200.