Right, lets start with the obvious.
I'm a stingy git.
But I also understand that you get what you pay for.
I need to upgrade my graphic card, partly because the one I have was noisy. I say 'was' because it is now silent. The fan is solid. It all still works, for a while but the heatsink gets very hot and it occasionally shuts down, I assume because it's got too hot.
I could just replace the fan/heatsink assy, but by the time I've buggered about with it I'm thinking I'll just get a new one.
It's an old card too and I see the budget prices start at about £20 for a card with 1Gb on board memory and a faster processor than I have.
So, any preference?
I don't do gaming just Listen to music, record and play at lot of TV and play the occasional DVD.
The two that jump out are
Asus AMD Radeon HD 6450 Silent Graphics Card (1GB, PCI-E, Low Profile, DDR3, 3 Years Warranty)
and
Sapphire 11166-02-20R HD 5450 1GB DDR3 PCIE HDMI Graphics Card
Any advice from the usual Media Centre experts appreciated.
I'm running Vista by the way.....I know,I know.....
