Silent PCI-E card with 840 x 480

[Heinz Kiosk]

The headline says it all, really.

I'm building my own media centre PC.

I am looking for a passively cooled pci-e card that can handle 840x480
(yes that is an 8 in the 840 not a 6) screen (a panasonic plasma
widescreen). The plasma screen accepts 4:3 resolutions like 640x480 but
XP (using powerDVD or media player) then gets confused about aspect
ratio when displaying normal 16:9 DVDs and puts them in a thin letterbox
as if the screen were really 4:3.

I looked at the X300SE from a couple of manufacturers but their manuals
didn't list 840x480 in the possible resolutions.

I am currently using a Geforce 5200 in a pci slot which supports 840x480
but it has a noisy fan AND I want the PCI slot freed for another card.

Thank you for any advice you can give.

Tom

 

[HockeyTownUSA]

The headline says it all, really.

I'm building my own media centre PC.

I am looking for a passively cooled pci-e card that can handle 840x480
(yes that is an 8 in the 840 not a 6) screen (a panasonic plasma
widescreen). The plasma screen accepts 4:3 resolutions like 640x480 but XP
(using powerDVD or media player) then gets confused about aspect ratio
when displaying normal 16:9 DVDs and puts them in a thin letterbox as if
the screen were really 4:3.

I looked at the X300SE from a couple of manufacturers but their manuals
didn't list 840x480 in the possible resolutions.

I am currently using a Geforce 5200 in a pci slot which supports 840x480
but it has a noisy fan AND I want the PCI slot freed for another card.

Thank you for any advice you can give.

Tom

Try PowerStrip.

http://entechtaiwan.net/util/ps.shtm

 

[DaveW]

There is no consumer oriented such device.

 

[!bungle]

The headline says it all, really.

I'm building my own media centre PC.

I am looking for a passively cooled pci-e card that can handle 840x480
(yes that is an 8 in the 840 not a 6) screen (a panasonic plasma
widescreen). The plasma screen accepts 4:3 resolutions like 640x480 but XP
(using powerDVD or media player) then gets confused about aspect ratio
when displaying normal 16:9 DVDs and puts them in a thin letterbox as if
the screen were really 4:3.

I looked at the X300SE from a couple of manufacturers but their manuals
didn't list 840x480 in the possible resolutions.

I am currently using a Geforce 5200 in a pci slot which supports 840x480
but it has a noisy fan AND I want the PCI slot freed for another card.

Thank you for any advice you can give.

Tom

(talking out of my butt)

The refresh rate override page in my BFG 6600GT OC lists 848x480 (not
840x480) as an available choice... sure the fan is putting out some sound,
but if you're running low resolutions all the time I'm sure you could remove
the fan and it would cope. Or add a heatpipe cooling solution....

!bungle

 

[Thomas]

I looked at the X300SE from a couple of manufacturers but their
manuals didn't list 840x480 in the possible resolutions.

I am currently using a Geforce 5200 in a pci slot which supports
840x480 but it has a noisy fan AND I want the PCI slot freed for
another card.

Any video card can be configured to play a 'custom resolution'... One way to
do that is to use Power Strip, like HockeyTownUSA suggests...

 

[Heinz Kiosk]

(talking out of my butt)

The refresh rate override page in my BFG 6600GT OC lists 848x480 (not
840x480) as an available choice... sure the fan is putting out some sound,
but if you're running low resolutions all the time I'm sure you could remove
the fan and it would cope. Or add a heatpipe cooling solution....

!bungle

Yeah, sorry, I meant 848x480. Didn't have the machine in front of me.

Tom

 

[Heinz Kiosk]

Try PowerStrip.

http://entechtaiwan.net/util/ps.shtm

Thanks, that route looks like the one to try. (I meant 848x480 of
course, but I guess that you know that)

 

[Heinz Kiosk]

Any video card can be configured to play a 'custom resolution'... One way to
do that is to use Power Strip, like HockeyTownUSA suggests...

Thanks.