Can I use any vga card as a display device ?
This is what Mark Rejhon has to say about this: “DScaler requires an AGP card. It is impossible to do on a PCI video card. DScaler uses massive amounts of *bidirectional* bus bandwidth: 250 megabits per second incoming bandwidth (from TV card) and about 500 megabits per second outgoing bandwidth (to videocard). This bus data firehose is not feasible on PCI bus, as PCI can reliably continuously transfer up to about 600-700 megabits per second *in one direction only* out of a possible 1056 megabits per second (132 megabytes per second) due to overhead. Try to go bidirectional, and framerate literally gets the death penalty!” However, some users ahve reported that they are able to use their PCI card successfully and without dropped frames. In some cases however, frame rate goes down when higher and higher resolutions are tried. Ian Darian reported I have an 8MB 3dfusion PCI on a BX mobo Celeron 566 64MB RAM 66MHz FSB, with Dynalink Magic TView (Conexant 878) and can only execute DScaler a
