what card

[Lakeland]

can someone recomend me a cheap gfx card, its not for games just for higher quality image when watching dvd's

 

[semi-pro waster]

What sort of price range are you looking at here and what format(AGP or PCI-E)? Some people seem to think that ATI graphics cards offer a nice image or at least they used to but at the budget end of the market I'd say it is all about the same.

 

[Lakeland]

PCI-E, it needs to be as cheap as possible really. is there any real need for a gfx card just for watching dvd's? what is onboard gfx like?

 

[semi-pro waster]

Onboard graphics are obviously never as good as a standalone solution and they do use system Ram but for basic DVD watching it should be fine, something like one of the Asus MicroATX motherboards have a Geforce 6150 chip in them which would probably suit.

 

[Lakeland]

are those boards any good for overclocking with? nothing too serious, only want to get to about 2.5/6 with an opty

 

[Dureth]

If your going to be overclocking too then you should go for a seperate card as most of the integrated graphics are M-ATX and have restricted overclocking options.

Try this:

XFX GeForce PCX6500 256MB DDR2 TV-Out/DVI (PCI-Express) - Retail (PVT44FWANG) (GX-061-XF) £50.47

OR

Sapphire ATI Radeon X1300 256MB DDR2 AVIVO TV-Out/DVI (PCI-Express) - Retail (GX-108-SP) £69.27

 

[ACESHIGH]

You could get this ...

Sapphire ATI Radeon X550 128MB DDR TV-Out/DVI (PCI-Express) - Retail (GX-098-SP)
Price: £39.95 (£46.94 Including VAT at 17.5%)