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pinhead159

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Hello my name is Jack and I am new to this forum.
My question is I have an old AK31V3.1 motherboard with an AMD Athlon XP 1800+ processor with one stick of 256 mb PC2100 Ram and a 250w power supply and I want to connect it to my 42" Philips LCD HD TV.
So I need a video card with a HDMI output that will work with this setup.
Can anyone give me a list of video cards that will work for this.
Thank You,
Jack
 
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Jack, you seriously need an upgrade. That stuff is ancient.

Even just:

PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant / Benchmarks

CPU: AMD Phenom II X4 965 Black 3.4GHz Quad-Core Processor ($79.99 @ Newegg)
Motherboard: ASRock 880GM-LE FX Micro ATX AM3+ Motherboard ($54.99 @ Amazon)
Memory: Wintec One 4GB (2 x 2GB) DDR3-1600 Memory ($35.28 @ Amazon)
Storage: Seagate Barracuda 500GB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive ($55.98 @ Outlet PC)
Video Card: MSI GeForce GTX 650 Ti 1GB Video Card ($119.99 @ Newegg)
Case: Rosewill FBM-01 MicroATX Mini Tower Case ($21.99 @ Newegg)
Power Supply: Corsair CX 500W 80 PLUS Bronze Certified ATX12V Power Supply ($49.99 @ Newegg)
Total: $418.21
(Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available.)
(Generated by PCPartPicker 2013-05-29 15:16 EDT-0400)

Would help you a lot.
 
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pinhead159

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Thank you for the info and building a new machine might be the way I will have to go, but I would still like to know if there is a video card with an HDMI port old or new out there that will work with the setup I have.

I don't mind buying an old used video card if it will get the job done.

If nothing like that is available then around $400.00 is fairly cheep for a new machine in my old case and I know it will be a better machine than my upgraded old stuff but I am trying to do this as cheaply as I can.

My old machine works fine I just want to be able to use it for movies and shows from the internet.

Thank You Again,
Jack
 
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pinhead159

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It sounds like I am not going to be able to find a new video card that will work with my old setup.
That $350 dollar setup looks like a much better machine than my old stuff.
I wont need a new case because the old case I have is huge and it will be inside a cabinet so it will not be seen anyway.
In the video he said that the processor has a graphics card built into it so does that mean I would not need a video card to play movies and shows from the internet?
I would also add a Blue-Ray/ DVD read/writer to the system so I can play DVD's and burn them as well.
Jack
 
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You can still buy AGP graphics cards. Here are a few for sale at amazon.
http://www.amazon.com/s?ie=UTF8&keywords=agp%20graphics%20cards&page=1&rh=n%3A172282%2Ck%3Aagp%20graphics%20cards

I would also check newegg and tigerdirect.

Edit:
You can probably upgrade the memory too. Does your comp accept 1Gig sticks. If so and I think it does, I would put 4 of these in the slots:
http://www.amazon.com/s?ie=UTF8&keywords=184-pin%20dimm%20ddr%20pc2700&page=1&rh=n%3A172282%2Ck%3A184-pin%20dimm%20ddr%20pc2700

 
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Yes. I don't think you'd be needing one.

Laptops also come with things like "Intel HD 4000" and that's the same "built into CPU" GPU.

It's called an integrated GPU (contra dedicated).
 
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