Video Quailty

[imported_OrSin]

How bad will the video quailty by with the Integrated Intel® Graphics Media Accelerator 900?

A little back ground:
I build computer all the time, but I got lazy when my brother asked for another computer. He smokes in the room with the computer and he destroy computers every ever year, but he usually gets my old ones so i don't care too much. I was able to get a deal on a Dell 2400. $200 ready to ship, so went ahead and got it. I fixed his computer so he didn't need the dell. I have using it as file server, but i just got MCE 2005 and wants to try it out on my TV. I got a 65" HDTV but it will only except 800x600 60HZ for input ( its old). The dell only comes with PCI slots so no AGP slot. So I'm wondering just how bad the picture quality would be using the on board card. I know ATI and NV would be better, but with only PCI out, not sure if its even worth getting one of those cards.

One other thing do you think it would be worth it to get a The myHD card for the TV. Right now I got a FOA card to get digital satillite for my TV-in functions. Not sure if the card would improve picture quality and the FOA gets alot more channels (movie channels too).

Thanks

PS
Please no dell flames

 

[imported_OrSin]

Bump,

Any help from anyone?

 

[uOpt]

Well, the card is very slow. It isn't even much of an upgrade from the "Intel Extreme" graphics. No hardware transform and lightning. No antialiasing

So obviously your quality is limited by lack of resolution (via slow GPU speed) and lack of AA which makes it look blocky.

When it comes to texture filters I have no idea, none of the sites I frequent even bothered to evaluate them.

I guess you'll tell us.

P.S. any modern PCI card would be a huge improvement.