Re: Media Center Compatible PCI Video Card

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To tell the truth, I'm not terribly knowledgeable about PCI video cards. In
fact, I kinda wonder if the PCI bus allows the bandwidth necessary for HD. I
did hear in another thread that HD required 10Mbps and a 128Mb video card,
so I assume this means a 64Mb card won't cut it...

Dana Cline - MVP

"tim" <tim@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
news:D9C2288C-A43A-4CA2-AF1D-722C8DACCEB2@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Will a Radeon 7000 pci 64mb...Will this work with MCE 2005???
> or is the 9250 pci Radeon the lowest I caan go??
>
> "Dana Cline - MVP" wrote:
>
> > On every system I've built that has built-in video, the BIOS
automatically
> > uses the AGP graphics card if installed. Yours may be different because
> > you're using a PCI graphics adapter.
> >
> > "How cheap can you get?" - I think you answered that question -
$524.01...
> >
> > Dana Cline - MVP
> >
> > "jondoh" <jondoh.1spo65@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
> > news:jondoh.1spo65@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> > >
> > > I recently picked up a HP m7060n from office depot for $524.01-- a
great
> > > deal for MCE 2005 with pretty much all the fixings. I almost returned
> > > it when i found that not only did it not have TV out or DVI, it didn't
> > > have AGP either. How cheap can you get? I tried a few different PCI
> > > video cards and the one that works for me right now is the Xtasy 9200
> > > 256 MB PCI card. This card is made by VisionTek. I also had to
> > > download a separate driver from ATI that had support for Windows Media
> > > Center in order for the TIVO function to work (i got a error message
> > > about the driver not being compatible with Media Center before
> > > downloading the driver) but all is well now.
> > >
> > > It's a pain installing video cards into machines that have the chip
> > > built onto the motherboard. you first have to delete the original
> > > graphics driver, shut down, install the new card, change bios to look
> > > to the PCI for graphics card, disable the original driver (cause
> > > windows reinstalls it), install the new driver and then reboot. You
> > > probably have to reboot again to make sure the monitor settings take.
> > >
> > >
> > > Anyway, i'm very happy with the performance so far. Everything seems
> > > very well integrated. The TIVO function is great!
> > >
> > >
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> > > jondoh
> >
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