New graphics card required
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Hi, I've just built (or am in the process of building) an HTPC for my house. I kinda came to this by a roundabout route, so I need some help.

I have an old PC I use for emulators and recently got into DIY audio. To this end I bought an audigy 2zs soundcard. So far so good. I decided I might as well make this a HTPC what with the 7.1 surround and all.

Unfortunately the PC is not really up the video aspect of things. I was hoping to get away with just adding a new graphics card, as I intend to spend all my money building amps and speakers.

The current spec is as follows:

2.6GHz P4 Based Celeron (Likely my biggest problem)
1GB DDR RAM (a second gig is on the way)
Geforce FX 5200 AGP
Audigy 2ZS sound card
GA-8SIML Rev 1.0 motherboard.

AGP slot is 1x/2x/4x compatible according to the manual.

Basically I am looking for a graphics card which is either AGP or PCI will do all the video decoding for me and has HDMI or DVI(you can convert that to HDMI can't you?) and VGA (Obviously)

I had looked at ATi's HD4350 range, but I've heard mixed reports about how well it does DXVA and if its compatible with XBMC for this purpose.

Any help is most appreciated.

Alex
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