Cheap card that will output to a TV for emulator gaming?

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speedy2

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I pieced together a PC from parts I have kept from repairs. The system is running Ubuntu with an AMD Athlon XP 2200+ and a pretty basic board with onboard video with only VGA out. Emulators will probably remain NES & SNES. Although, I may add an N64 emulator to it as well, but I'm doubting it will play it.


I want to connect this to my TV. My TV has just about every connection except HDMI, which wouldn't matter anyway.

What can I get that it pretty cheap. I don't want to spend too much since I did build the whole thing for free anyway.
 
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Prehistoric AGP add-in boards are not going to be cheap. You can pretty much rule out AMD, since they don't support anything older than the HD3xxx series in their driver. Plus AMD drivers for linux blow ass, doubly so if tv out is involved.

Which means you're probably looking for something like an FX5200.

If you don't have VGA or HDMI in to your tv then you don't have 'just about every connection.' That's the thing to figure out -- determine what you've got, then look for an nvidia AGP card supporting that connector at the lowest price.
 
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Also, this is the back of my TV

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You can get a hdmi to component adapter or VGa to component adapter and they also convert to Svideo etc. Kingsworld makes a bunch of this stuff.

Unfortunately allot of the game emulators munch on cpu so graphics cards are kind of a moot point as the rendering requirements are usually fiarly low. Its the emulation that eats the cpu.


There are tons of dual ouput cards for DVI. what does your motherboard support ? PCIE or just AGP 8x ?
 
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I have a couple of older AGP boards laying around with DVI outputs on them. I MAY have the S-video dongles too. I'd have to look to see exactly what make/model they are.

I was planning on have a old-parts garage sale too... maybe this is what will get me off my ass :)
 
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His TV has a DVI-D connector. Why should he bother with S-Video or VGA or adapters? I'm pretty sure most AGP cards have a DVI-I output (I remember one on a Radeon 8500... GF3 era card). Just make sure you get a DVI-D/DVI-D cable and you'll be set. It will fit a DVI-I socket in a typical VGA card just fine.
 
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Qbah said:
His TV has a DVI-D connector. Why should he bother with S-Video or VGA or adapters? I'm pretty sure most AGP cards have a DVI-I output (I remember one on a Radeon 8500... GF3 era card). Just make sure you get a DVI-D/DVI-D cable and you'll be set. It will fit a DVI-I socket in a typical VGA card just fine.
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You mean like the 2 I just posted? Hell I got a PCI with DVI
 
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I have my doubts about the n64 emulator running well on such a old machine. It waspretty laggy at times with my oldp4 at 3.0ghz and a decent for the time agp card.
 
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Yeah, same here. I ran it on a P4 2.8 and it would run ok. But a game like goldeneye would lag REALLY BAD whenever smoke came up from an explosion.
 
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