need a pci video card that has really good s-video out image quality

[dannybin1742]

also looking for it to be cheap, if anyone has anything they want to sell, that works too, they can also pm me

 

[smurfmods]

I have experience with both nvidia and ati's offerings. They both have excellent s-vid output with adjustments for your tv. I noticed you said cheap... anything like a ati 9600 or nvidia equivalent with suffice and have some decent gameplay too.

hope that helps.

 

[Cawchy87]

the highest pci card you can buy from nvidia is the fx 5200 or by ati it is the 9100 i belive. No 9600 series in pci. Sorry OP i haven't had any experiance with s-video out on pci cards. On agp i know that ati is good (all i have had).

 

[kami333]

Matrox G400, has the best composite and S-Video out of any card.

 

[Matthias99]

Originally posted by: kami333
Matrox G400, has the best composite and S-Video out of any card.

Not sure about that, but I *do* know that Matrox card is not cheap. You might try a RADEON 9200[SE]... the 3D performance is bad, but it has DVI and S-Video out, and should be comparable in quality to the output on the R9600 and up.

 

[batmanuel]

I've always heard that the the GeForce 4 MX series had pretty nice video output quality due to the fact that they moved the TV output into the GPU itself, so the TV-out quality was no longer at the mercy of the card manufacturer. I think the GeForce 4 MX also had some decent onboard DVD playback acceleration, as well. I wound't want to game with one, but for a HTPC it might be a good low end solution.