DVD Not Clear On Playback

[Glen Strom]

On Mon, 14 May 2007 13:33:11 -0400
lsorense-1wCw9BSqJbv44Nm34jS7GywD8/FfD2ys at public.gmane.org (Lennart Sorensen) wrote:

> On Mon, May 14, 2007 at 12:52:45PM -0400, Glen Strom wrote:
> > I don't know either. Although the machine is old, the DVD playback
> > was smooth and, other than the ghosting, showed no problems--no
> > dropped frames and the sound was steady. That's why I wonder if the
> > problem is the card. Perhaps upgrading to a newer video card with a
> > Nvidia chipset would be the answer. What might be a good choice for
> > a machine this old?
> 
> Well depends what you expect it to do.  I assume it is AGP given the
> CPU, so for that the FX5200 is nice (if you don't intend to do any
> heavy 3D ever), as is the 6200 (I would avoid the stupid turbo cache
> versions though).  For performance 3D the 6600GT was a great card but
> is now nearly imposible to find.  The 7900GS is very fast too
> although then you are starting to look at probably $300 for a video
> card for a very old machine, which probably makes no sense.
> 
I was looking at Tiger Direct. They have an FX5200 for under $50, but
there are a couple of problems with it. First of all, the interface
speed is 8x--My machine can only handle 4X. Secondly, the specs also
say it needs at least a 250 watt power supply--my machine specs say the
power supply is only 200 watts. I'm only willing to spend so much on
upgrading this old box. A new card? OK. More than that? I don't think
so.

I noticed they have another card called a Diablotek GeForce4 MX 440
that seems to have lower specs. It handles 4X or 8x and has 128 MB of
DDR memory. It doesn't say anything about the power supply
requirements, but the minimum system requirements start out at the
Pentium level up to AMD-K6. Perhaps something like that might work?



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