S-VIDEO card?

NDC

NDC

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Hi, I'm new to the forum, so please forgive me if my question has been answered somewhere before.

I know a great deal about computers, and have worked on them ever since I was a wee little boy, but one thing I don't know is this:

Is there such a thing as a simple video card that has nothing but a standard 4 pin S-Video jack as the output? In other words, instead of buying an expensive video card, isn't there some device or smaller card made exclusively for the purpose of providing an S-Video jack? I'm guessing it's more than likely not a card, but an in-line converter that you plug in to your SVGA or DVI monitor output.

I think back in the 90s there was one called the Snap-It or something.
 
They make GPU's with a s video jack on them, You just have to look at them before you buy. Im not sure how many are still out there but i know they were all over the AGP cards
 
I know video cards have S-Video ports. My avatar is a photo of my new VisionTek Radeon 3650 OC (over-clocked) 800MHz video card, 1GB RAM and 2 DVI/HDMI outputs (with audio) and a 7-pin S-Video high deff video output jack.


But I was stupid and didn't check my motherboard before I ordered it, and it's a PCI express card, but my motherboard only has AGP and normal PCI slots.

My old Thinkpad laptop has an S-Video output (normal 4pin) which I use to hook up my big 36" TV to extend my desktop and watch youtube videos, go through artwork and photos, etc.

But my desktop I'm in the process of upgrading ever since my hard drive physically crashed because I set the monitor on top of the computer, and its a thin compacted computer case (Dell piece of sh**t) and the hard drive had no protective rails, so the case got pressed down, and made the hard drive squeal really loud, then banged the side like a hard punch, and 7 years worth of music was gone in an instant. Before that I had upgraded the memory to 2GB (that's the max for this motherboard and it seems to be plenty enough, even with Photoshop and Flash open at the same time, and a music studio) .

My old hard drive was only 40GB and the files were a mess, so part of me is glad to be free from that mess and have a fresh start. I'm gonna get a 500GB drive this time because that's the largest I can find for a compact Dell Dimension 4600c. Then eventually I'll upgrade the processor because it also has green tabs you can remove and then pull out the processor. But I'm limited to a 478 socket, yet the bus is 800Mhz so that's not so bad. The fastest processor I could find so far wasn't much faster than the 2.4Ghz I have in there right now, so it might not even be worth it. But sometimes on eBay you can get good deals on old processors that are have never been used but nobody wants to buy them because they are only 478 socket.

So anyway, now I'm looking to hook the desktop up to the TV also through a simple S-Video connection, but I wanted to do it cheaply, plus my computer case is a compact so I need low profile video cards but I can't find any. All the low profile ones I find end up having a normal size plate where the outputs are, so I still wouldn't be able to close the computer case. Why do they make the entire card half size, but then have a normal size end plate that won't fit in the computer? That completely defeats the purpose of the card being half size low profile.

My sexy new video card has inspired me to buy a clear computer case/housing and a new motherboard with several PCIe expansion slots, at least 3.7Ghz CPU and 4GB RAM. But that's in the future.

They have S-Video to RCA jack in-line converters, so why not vise-versa? Or at least a SVGA to S-Video converter. I know it has to exist, I just need to know what it's called so I can look it up. I'm confident somebody will eventually tell me where to find it.:cool:
 
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