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Which graphics card best out of 3 to connect computer to plasma?

Hello guys! I have a question about my soon to be setup (hopefully). ---I have a PANASONIC TH-42PX50U. And would like to connect my computer to it. ----It is a SOYO the motherboard says SY-P4I845PE. (It is barebones, I think??) ---I have found DDR Pc3200 memory for it, a 1gig and a 512mb. I have 3 graphics cards to choose from (BFriday already got them, will return rest). --ATI RADEON 9550 AGP 8x/4x VGA connector for analog CRT tv. S-Video. DVI-I Refresh Rate for 16:9 is 75Hz------>Do I match this with the TV?? --ATI RADEON 1300 PRO 8x/4x Requires AGP 8x slot-----------> Soyo says 4x transfer, so I cant use this graphics card? DVI connector for crt or flat panel. VGA for analog Memory Configuration 256 DDR2 +128-bit interlace.--->>I need DDR2 memory? --VERTO by PNY GEFORCE FX 5200 AGP 8x VGA +VGA+S-Video outputs. Maximum display res 2048x1536x32bpp at 85Hz Flat Panel display support res 1600x1200 with VGAinput needed in computer AGP 2.) slot-------------->do I have that? Manual says supports agp 2.0 I don't know much about this stuff or the insides of computers either, any help would be appreciated. I don't know what else the computer needs though? Here is a picture of it. [URL=http://imageshack.us][IMG]http://img463.imageshack.us/img463/4893/img0063ru6.jpg[/IMG][/URL] Do I need to buy anything else, I've got memory, hard drive, graphics card?My tv has HDMI, component, and s-Video. Don't know about DVI? Thank you Actually I DO have an AGP slot. Says the manula and I've checked inside. Apparently, there are 3 soyo's with the same model #, but with Lite or Pro etc at the end. Mine is just the plain one. So now knowing this, what would you reccomend?

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1. Sorry to tell You, None of those cards will work with your board as it doesnt have an AGP slot. You will need a PCI based video card with svideo out. You will also need the corresponding Svideo cable to connect from the puter to the TV ............. Ok went to the soyo site...found yours in the discontinued boards. The ATI 1300 is an AGP pro card and will not be compatible with your board. The other 2 cards are compatible. I believe from research that the soyo board is agp 2.0 compliant and will run an agp card at 4x. You will need to go into the bios and set the agp voltage down to 1.5v for the 4x/8x cards. The Verto is an 8x card, but should run with no problems on the soyo board which supports up to 4x. The Verto Geforce would be my choice ( I have one of each in machines I own), but either will work fine. You will still need the correct svideo cable to connect to a TV with svideo input (there are 2 different sVideo pinouts), so check to make sure your if your card output and TV input are the same or different. I dont know enough about HDMI to comment, but the ATI card has this and it would simplify combined audio/video output to your TV (such as video files or DVD output). I prefer 1 GB of ram now minimum (your 3200 memory should be fine on the 2700 board...it will run at 2700 speed). A good large volume Hard drive 150-300 GB is preferable, especially if you save audio and video files. A DVD drive/writer might be nice as well. If you can add a cooling fan or two to the case this might also be a worthy addon/purchase.