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which HTPC graphics card?
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An alternative is a 8600GT/GTS. It is not as good as the 2600 at decoding VC1 High Def stuff but about the same for h.264. Either way they are both an order of magnitude faster at HD media decoding than any previous cards inc. 8800GTX.
I went with a 8600GTS as nvidia drivers are much better as they can be tweaked fairly easily to work with HDTV sets. ATI drivers are much less helpful.
I went with a 8600GTS as nvidia drivers are much better as they can be tweaked fairly easily to work with HDTV sets. ATI drivers are much less helpful.
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If going with Nvidia then you can get away with an 8500GT, Only real advantage going with the 8600GTS is that it has HDCP if you are bothered with playing copy protected content.
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Does anyone know of a PCI-E card thats passive and has a low profile bracket which will run LCD at 1366 x 768 Resolution? Im finding it hard to get one............
Bobmunkhouse said:
If you want to get 1:1 pixel mapping at 1360/1368 x 768 then I would look for a 8400 as you will probably be able to find a LP one, as far as I am aware all/most 8400 are passive.
Horizontal resolutions are only available if divisible by 8 so you have to put up with a slightly perfect match.
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this card
http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=GX-080-HT&groupid=701&catid=56&subcat=939
looks small enough to be able to just take the back bracket off and use it in a case which only takes low profile cards, if you need that.
although if you can use full size cards any of the ati 2400/2600 or nvidia 8500/8600s should be fine, but as said before the ati's also decode vc-1, both the ati and nvidia cards have a lot of passive versions around.
http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=GX-080-HT&groupid=701&catid=56&subcat=939
looks small enough to be able to just take the back bracket off and use it in a case which only takes low profile cards, if you need that.
although if you can use full size cards any of the ati 2400/2600 or nvidia 8500/8600s should be fine, but as said before the ati's also decode vc-1, both the ati and nvidia cards have a lot of passive versions around.
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Took my Geforce7 out of my HTPC and run 1920x1080p with the onboard 6200 no problem. 
As long as you have a decent CPU (mine has an AM2 X2 3800+) you'll find video card isn't important, unless of course you need true HDCP content playback etc. but let's face it who does.
As long as you have a decent CPU (mine has an AM2 X2 3800+) you'll find video card isn't important, unless of course you need true HDCP content playback etc. but let's face it who does.