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Originally Posted by island911
For what you would pay for a decent graphics card you could buy a blu disk player that streams HD Netflix.
...Of course that solution won't give you the benefit of extra cables every where, another TV/audio input to manage, and another big box ' electronics buzzing away in your living room.
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You can buy a nice video card for quite cheap these days the cheapest blue ray player I've seen is $107
Newegg.com - TOSHIBA Blu-ray Disc Player BDX2000 - Blu-Ray Players ad that won't stream video. Internet streaming is on the $150+ end of blue ray players. like this guy for $200
Newegg.com - Sony 3D Blu-ray Disc Player BDP-S470 - Blu-Ray Players
Nvidia just released the new line of video cards the 4series so all the prices on older cards have came down and your Gx520 has a pci-e slot so it should be good to go with a low power video card.
Here's a Ati 5670 for $74 (after $10mir)
Newegg.com - HIS H567Q512 Radeon HD 5670 (Redwood) IceQ 512MB 128-bit GDDR5 PCI Express 2.1 x16 HDCP Ready CrossFireX Support Video Card - Desktop Graphics / Video Cards
that will be more than enough to stream vid to a tv and with only a 61w max power draw it will be fine with the Gx520's measly power supply