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May 3, 2009 | 5:47 pm

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gfunkdave

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Originally Posted by ScottC

EDIT: OOPS, if you have an old box, I doubt you'll have PCI Express?

This is my current low cost favorite:

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16814121259

I can play 1080p MKV's on it without a glitch, and it does audio over HDMI when you install the ATI Catalyst package for Linux.

I'd also add more ram, 512 isn't going to help much when you are decoding HD.

Thanks Scott - I'd been looking at that one. But is it the video card that processes the HD video or the CPU? That's really what I was asking, I suppose.

Edit: just looked into it a bit more. I need a card that either uses AGP or the old-school PCI, not PCI Express. Any suggestions?

Last edited by gfunkdave; May 3, 2009 at 6:11 pm

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