dell dimension 2400 and 3100

stuart291155

i want to use one of the pcs i have listed to stream bbc iplayer to my tv a 46 plasma panasonic, which one would be best to use ,they are both standard except for memory upgrade to 2gb on both and both are on windows xp.would this work and are there any other upgrades i could make.

rdpro

The 3100 has the better graphics chip of the 2, although both are 'integrated' so they share the system memory when working.

Try it as is, and if you get any stutter, consider a half-decent PCIe dedicated graphics card (about £30 up) - preferably an ATi as they're more stable than Nvidia.

A new graphics card will give you an HDMI connection to your TV

Like this: http://www.ebuyer.com/product/169294

stuart291155

rdpro wrote: »

The 3100 has the better graphics chip of the 2, although both are 'integrated' so they share the system memory when working.

Try it as is, and if you get any stutter, consider a half-decent PCIe dedicated graphics card (about £30 up) - preferably an ATi as they're more stable than Nvidia.

A new graphics card will give you an HDMI connection to your TV

Like this: http://www.ebuyer.com/product/169294

cheers for that, are these graphic cards easy to fit, i am no expert when it comes to pcs but i did manage to upgrade the memory ok in the 2 dell pcs and my samsung nc10

rdpro

Unfortunately, after delving deeper, I see that the PCI-e slot is only 1x speed, so won't take a standard graphics card - there are some about that will fit, but the cost far outweighs the performance.

Sorry about that.

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Try it and see, assuming a reasonable internet connection, SD content will be fine, HD could possibly stutter.

In the near future, a set top box will do similar http://www.projectcanvas.info/index.cfm/news/

and iplayer capability will probably be built into TV's along the lines of vieracast.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Viera_Cast