Looking for economic PCI E16 video card

[satimis]

Hi folks,


What PCI E16 video card you would recommend?

My mobo ASUS A8N-VM has onboard vedio card. I'm looking for an economic reliable video card for the mobo in order not taking up CUP resource. I don't game nor do graphic editing.

TIA


B.R.
satimis

 

[Peter]

Integrated graphics eating "into CPU resources" is a myth anyway. Nevermind it, just continue to use it. (There is a certain impact onto RAM throughput, but with current CPUs and their huge caches, it doesn't matter much either.)

Anyway, if you want a card that doesn't use much power, the size of the cooling solution indicates its power consumption best. Small, fanless heatsink -> economic card.

The true champions of making eco friendly PCIE cards are S3, coming in at 3 to 5 watts maximum power, while our popular friends ATI and NVidia clock in at up to ten times as much in IDLE. Not kidding.
Sadly, S3 have no market penetration on retail shelves at all.

 

[F1N3ST]

Actually the new low end HD2400 and below can use only 30 watts or less, but i agree with you, it only impacts the SIZE of the RAM, say you have 1024mb (1GB) and yor video controller takes 64mb, you have 1024-64, 960mb

 

[Peter]

Well technically, integrated RAM does use some RAM bandwidth.

Current Intel processors can't use the full bandwidth of the RAM anyway - they're bottlenecked on the FSB. AMD processors with their excellent, much faster RAM controllers on the other hand can spare a bit of RAM bandwidth without much impact. So either way, it doesn't make nearly as much difference as it used to in the days of single channel SDRAM.