<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:trebuchet ms,sans-serif">For just streaming and transcoding movies/video, I would suggest any of the following. They are all sub 100 dollar cards, Potentially passively cooled, and low profile options are available. they are also recent enough to have modern transcode/decode options for movie/video watching.</div><div class="gmail_default" style=""><font face="trebuchet ms, sans-serif">GeForce GT 1030<br></font></div><div class="gmail_default" style=""><font face="trebuchet ms, sans-serif">Nvidia GTX 1050 mini <br></font></div><div class="gmail_default" style=""><font face="trebuchet ms, sans-serif">AMD RX 540/550</font><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style=""><font face="trebuchet ms, sans-serif">Even the </font>AMD Radeon RX 5300 that is on the map for release later this year.</div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Thu, Apr 23, 2020 at 4:18 PM Jim via PLUG-discuss <<a href="mailto:plug-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org">plug-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">I'm looking for a new video card. I'll use it mainly for watching <br>
videos. I'm looking for something that will play h265 video and not bog <br>
down my system. What should I look for in a video card? thanks<br>
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