Cheap card for atom rig...

[mikecoscia]

Going to throw together a dual core atom rig for the hell of it. Whats a cheap low end GPU of decent quality. Looking to spend no more than $50 bucks MAX on it. Want to make sure video play back is perfectly smooth. Oh it has to be PCI.

 

[criccio]

Video playback will only be affected if you are playing back GPU decodable (usually HD, DXVA, etc..) material. What are you trying to play on this machine? Everything else relies on the CPU. And FWIW, the single core Atom in my AAO plays back 720p h264 video with CoreAVC.

 

[mikecoscia]

Video playback will only be affected if you are playing back GPU decodable (usually HD, DXVA, etc..) material. What are you trying to play on this machine? Everything else relies on the CPU. And FWIW, the single core Atom in my AAO plays back 720p h264 video with CoreAVC.

Ah did not know that, thought any video would take advantage of it. Ah well still want to throw a cheap card in, at least get some Halo going on it .