My brother wants 1080p playback with his 2.8ghz Pentium 4
 

Whats the cheapest graphics card that will do that?

He's not interested in gaming.

Re: My brother wants 1080p playback with his 2.8ghz Pentium 4
 

Something like this?

Re: My brother wants 1080p playback with his 2.8ghz Pentium 4
 

You just need a decent GPU. Check out the GT 240. (assuming the machine is PCIe)

Re: My brother wants 1080p playback with his 2.8ghz Pentium 4
 

Try playing it in xbmc. It'll probably do it just fine in software alone. Some players, e.g. WMP, VLC, and a few others will play like crap even on much faster computers. But players like XBMC or MPC-HC will happily play on almost any circa 2002ish or later CPU.

If it does run a little choppy, then try pretty much any 8k series nvidia card, even the el cheapo ones.

Re: My brother wants 1080p playback with his 2.8ghz Pentium 4
 

Which 2.8 is it? Does it have HT? 533? 800? ... 400?

And what sort of slot is there for vidcard expansion?

Re: My brother wants 1080p playback with his 2.8ghz Pentium 4
 

i doubt 1080p will be possible with that system without a decent video card... i have a laptop with a 2.8ghz P4 (non HT) with some intel extreme gfx crap and 720p is fine but anything more wont work

Re: My brother wants 1080p playback with his 2.8ghz Pentium 4
 

I believe the 2.8 P4 is single core with AGP. If so a single core will struggle.

Re: My brother wants 1080p playback with his 2.8ghz Pentium 4
 

The board has PCI-E so it must be a 775 so I'm guessing its a 2.8ghz 520, It does have HT so its an 800fsb.

I'll get him to run sandra or something when I can contact him to get some more details.

Re: My brother wants 1080p playback with his 2.8ghz Pentium 4
 

Make him be happy with 720p. :D

Re: My brother wants 1080p playback with his 2.8ghz Pentium 4
 

AMD: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16814131178

NV: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16814134089