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    New graphics card time

    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.

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    Re: New graphics card time

    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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    Re: New graphics card time

    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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    Re: New graphics card time

    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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    Re: New graphics card time

    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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    Re: New graphics card time

    Quote Originally Posted by Queelis View Post
    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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    Re: New graphics card time

    The HD4550 GDDR2 I suggested is around £27 from Scan.

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    Re: New graphics card time

    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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    Re: New graphics card time

    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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    Re: New graphics card time

    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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    Re: New graphics card time

    Quote Originally Posted by scaryjim View Post
    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...
    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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    Re: New graphics card time

    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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    Re: New graphics card time

    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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    Re: New graphics card time

    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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    Re: New graphics card time

    Quote Originally Posted by Funkstar View Post
    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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    Re: New graphics card time

    Quote Originally Posted by Funkstar View Post
    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?

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