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Theirs a passive asus GT240 http://www.novatech.co.uk/novatech/p...ENTDI1GD3.html tad pricey at £90 though.
*edit* scratch that ya after low profile.
Had a look at the asus GT220 low profile but the reviews state the fan is quite loud, looks like the sparkle models were canned.
Wonder if a passive 5450 would be up to the task or a 5570.
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In addition to the HD5450 suggested before the OP might want to look at this HD4550 graphics card:
http://www.scan.co.uk/Products/512MB...-DL-DVI-I-HDMI
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I picked up a passive 5450 from Amazon (I think) about 6 weeks back, DXVA acceleration of AVC, Mpeg-2 and VC-1, with a low profile bracket. Outputs HD audio via HDMI too.
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Sapphire-HD5...7300419&sr=8-2
Should work fine with everything you throw at it, except perhaps interlaced VC-1 which can be a pain to decode, but I doubt your HD-800/1000 records to VC-1.
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I think you would be better off with an nVidia card, since they are more widely supported in video editing apps. A GT240 seems a good choice, and with a fan like that (what is it, at least 80mm?) it'll be plenty quiet - you don't mention gaming, so idling it will be really quiet.
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Queelis
I think you would be better off with an nVidia card, since they are more widely supported in video editing apps. A
GT240 seems a good choice, and with a fan like that (what is it, at least 80mm?) it'll be plenty quiet - you don't mention gaming, so idling it will be really quiet.
Thanks, but it needs to be low profile.
I think I'm probably best going for a relatively inepensive ATI card for the moment and waiting to see if anything else comes on the scene in the future. It's a shame the Antec case I have doesn't have an interchangable PCI backing cage so you could have many low profile cards or just a couple of full height ones at 90 degrees using an adapter board.
I'm not prepared to replace or re-build my desktop just for a new graphics card.
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The HD4550 GDDR2 I suggested is around £27 from Scan.
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I spotted that Cat, I think that's what I'll go with for the moment. Spending that now and then again in a years time would be better than spending twice that now :)
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tbh if you're going for a GDDR2 4550, you may as well save a couple of quid and get a 4350 instead - the GPU core is absolutely identical - 600MHz / 80 shaders. The only difference is that the 4550 is meant to be specified with DDR3 memory - a lot of manufacturers (I'm looking at you, XFX) have started specifying the "wrong" memory for these cards (I've seen a couple of 4670s with DDR2 recently, which is also out of spec...). Ebuyer have a 256MB HD4350 for £22. Otherwise all the 4350s and 4550s seem to be about the same price at £27 - £30...
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If you are getting the card for 1080 video, then the 5450 is good but the 5570 is better as it has the grunt to perform more image post processing.
http://www.anandtech.com/show/3601/t...deon-htpc-card
If you don't care about the hdmi audio out features of the 5000 series, then a low profile 4650 might be a good call for about 40 quid.
http://www.ebuyer.com/product/176023
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scaryjim
tbh if you're going for a GDDR
2 4
550, you may as well save a couple of quid and get a 4350 instead - the GPU core is absolutely identical - 600MHz / 80 shaders. The only difference is that the 4550 is
meant to be specified with DDR
3 memory - a lot of manufacturers (I'm looking at you, XFX) have started specifying the "wrong" memory for these cards (I've seen a couple of 46
70s with DDR2 recently, which is also out of spec...). Ebuyer have a
256MB HD4350 for £22. Otherwise all the 4350s and 4550s seem to be about the same price at £27 - £30...
I agree, that's the reason why xfx 4550's are way cheaper than any other.
I have a 4550 dd3 myself and its a good card for everything but gaming.
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The Sapphire 4550 looks to be the right card for me at the moment. £26 from Scan, but out of stock, should be able to find it for the same else where.
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They were around the £35-40 mark when i was looking about six weeks ago, ended up getting a used one on ebay.
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OK, here's another option:
http://www.scan.co.uk/Products/NVIDI...isplayPort-OEM
Nvidia Quadro® FX 380 Low Profile - PCI Express x16, 512MB GDDR3
Yes it's a bit on the expensive side, but it would give my Nvidia GPU acceleration and a decent amount of CUDA cores.
How does this compair to consumer graphics cards? What basic core does this use? I've tried searching but haven't found anything conclusive. The only benchmarks I found were compairing it to FireGLs.
Although the prevailing option is to go for a really cheap card in the mean time, then upgrade to something better at a later date. I found a passive HIS 5570 last night and have asked Scan if they can get them.
http://www.hisdigital.com/un/product2-547.shtml
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Funkstar
OK, here's another option:
http://www.scan.co.uk/Products/NVIDI...isplayPort-OEM
Nvidia Quadro® FX 380 Low Profile - PCI Express x16, 512MB GDDR3
Yes it's a bit on the expensive side, but it would give my Nvidia GPU acceleration and a decent amount of CUDA cores.
How does this compair to consumer graphics cards? What basic core does this use? I've tried searching but haven't found anything conclusive. The only benchmarks I found were compairing it to FireGLs.
Although the prevailing option is to go for a really cheap card in the mean time, then upgrade to something better at a later date. I found a passive HIS 5570 last night and have asked Scan if they can get them.
http://www.hisdigital.com/un/product2-547.shtml
Not the same card but similar model number
http://www.gpureview.com/show_cards....=499&card2=617
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Funkstar
Right, after months of putting it off, I really do need a new graphics card.
My current setup can't handle 1080p video from my Sanyo Xacti HD-1000 (and struggles with 720p video from my older HD-800).
So I'm after the fastest most widely supported hardware acceleration, small form factor card I can get for reasonable money. I would prefer it to be passive and silent, but very very quiet is acceptable. What's my options?
I know Sparkle made some noise about a passive GT240, but I can't find anything more about it since then. Which is a shame, I think it would have been perfect.
What card are you using?
