Anyone used a sis-6326 based vid card?

[artemedes]

I have found a couple of vendors who sell a SIS-6326 video card that is PCI and has TV-out.

It seems like the right price (new) mwave - $24.50.

I am mostly interested in the tv-out. In fact If I want to hook it up to a tv only. Does anyone know if it can be set to
automatically use the tv-out? Last Question, Does it look halfway decent? I only need the tv-out to start winamp, and the
software for the H+ decoder. I plan on hooking both the vidcard and the H+ dvd decoder to the home theater reciever which will
then go to the tv. This way I can get digital sound from the H+ card, and analog sound from a sound card for mp3 and what not.
The mb does not have an AGP slot.


TIA


edit to add:
3 most important things for this endeavor: Cheap, PCI, and tv-out.

 

[vss1980]

Well, I've used a SiS 6326 card, but not the TV-Out on it.
Apart from that, I can say that the drivers are pretty stable for the card (its been around for a while and SiS have had a while to make sure of stability) and it works well for normal 2D windows use, but it will not be winning any 3D performance awards.

Some versions did have iDCT support which meant that the card helped decode DVD, but I dont know which specific versions.

There may be better alternatives though. ATI tv-out is supposed to be pretty good and there are still probably a few ATI Rage 128 based cards around that have tv-out (they also have iDCT support to aid DVD playback) and I doubt that the cards will be much more expensive.

 

[artemedes]

I check out the ATI's but most of the ones I found that had tv-out were AGP.

The motherboard I was planning on using for this project doesn't have an AGP slot.

The other requirement was Cheap!, so the Radeon VE and other PCI cards that would be good candidates seem
to be much more than the SIS. Don't need any kind of 3d for this either.