TV-Out on PCI card

[wishmaster]

I am setting up my older 2nd system in my entertainment center. I need to get a PCI video card that offers TV-OUT, as I don't plan to have a monitor setup on it. Can anyone recommend a good reasonbly priced one? How about the Velocity 4400 with nVidia TNT? Does TV-Out work good on this? This system will be running Windows 2000 BTW.

 

[Guest]

Hey,

Look for the old STB Velocity. it runs the Riva, Riva ZX chipset (pre TNT), and it comes with Tv-Out. It should cost you like 20 bucks if you can find it.

Timothy Stankus
One of the First AMD Athlon Users =)

 

[Guest]

You are trying to build an entertainment center with a old card such as that. Really, if you want it took look as good as possible, you should get a new Nvidia or ATI card with an output. ATI has always been large on including features such as TV-out on their cards. I don't know about the cost, but for a decent TV-out and PCI setup, I would go with an older ATI card. You can use ATI in this case because you want more of image quality rather then gaming performance in an entertainment center.

 

[wishmaster]

Thanks, I think I'll go for the ATI Xpert@Play98 with the Rage Pro chip, and 8MB RAM. This card can be had reasonably. I also purchased a Inno3d GeForce2 MX, as they have a PCI version, but couldn't justify the $120 price for this old system.

 

[wishmaster]

The problem with the Riva 128, is poor TV-Out quality (refer to Tom's review), and no W2K drivers. This is the problem with trying to find an older card, no drivers for W2K.