Low profile graphics card for my media centre?

[Bobmunkhouse]

Hi I need some help I have recently built a low profile media centre, which works great but the onboard intel graphics will not run at the native res of my screen which is 1366 x 768. I have looked this up and found there is not a way to change this so I need to get a PCI-E low profile graphics card that is passive (Silent) that runs at 1366 x 768) which I am finding difficult. I thought you guys were the best people to ask as you deal with low media centres.

Thanks for the help and also if u could recommend a cheap DVI to HDMI cable that would be nice.

 

[squiffy]

You should be able to run 1360x768, then set your TV to non-stretch mode. With other cards you'll need to mess around with powerstrip (ATI) or use custom resolution (Nvidia)

As for DVI-HDMI cable I picked up one of these, auction ID 170062955806

 

[Bobmunkhouse]

You should be able to run 1360x768, then set your TV to non-stretch mode. With other cards you'll need to mess around with powerstrip (ATI) or use custom resolution (Nvidia)

As for DVI-HDMI cable I picked up one of these, auction ID 170062955806

Yeah I messed around with power strip but found out that the Intel on board graphics chip I have just does not do that res it apparently has what resolutions it can do are hard wired in????

 

[Bomag]

No graphics card will do a horizontal 1366 resolution as it has to be divisible by 8. The best solution is to set to 1360*768 which should be supported via powerstrip.

This assumes you are using a vga cable, if you are using a DVI-DVI cable then it may be impossible to set 1360*768 as many LCD TVs don't list 1360*768 (or other wide screen modes) on their lookup table. You can force the resolution to be used using nvidia drivers and there are some low profile 7300 cards, but probably OC don't sell then.

Finally most TVs don't allow PC resolutions via their HDMI inputs so you may be limited to 720p/1080i options (with accompanying overscan issues)