New graphics card to PJ & TV - what are my options?

[Greg Zepplin]

At the moment I'm just using the onboard VGA to my PJ and seriously clocking up the hours on the bulb, to use it with my telly I have to change the resolution and fiddle with cables so I'm looking for a simpler and better solution.

My motherboard has a spare PCI-e slot and I'm thinking of getting a new graphics card. Are there cards out there with two DVI/HDMI ports that I could run one at 720p and one at 1080p? Or a maybe one DVI/HDMI 720p and a vga?

All I use the PC for is internet, music and iplayer so I don't think an all singing, all dancing model is necessary.

Mobo is Asus k8s-mx.

Any suggestions for a suitable card?

TIA

 

[EndlessWaves]

Yeah, most graphics cards have two ports now and all of those that do will handle two screens independantly (so you can use seperate resolutions).

What form factor is the PCI-E slot you've got? PCI-E 1x or PCI-E 16x?

 

[Greg Zepplin]

Just had a look at the manual and the PCI-e is 1x; there's also an AGP 4x/8x slot that I forgot about!

 

[EndlessWaves]

Just had a look at the manual and the PCI-e is 1x; there's also an AGP 4x/8x slot that I forgot about!

AGP, PCI or PCI-E 1x will all work, but PCI-E 16x is the standard these days so you'll have to make sure you get a card for one of those slots.