Building arcade thingy, need video card help

[Ironic Man]

I built this arcade thingy, Its basically a computer inside an arcade control panel(with all the buttons and junk).
So it is a box with a bunch of buttons on top, which plugs into a tv.

Currently I have a laptop in it, with svideo output, and its really crap, half the time it gives me errors and i have to reboot.
But recently I have been given a dell inspiron 2400, at least I think it is. And i want to see if i can cram that thing in there instead.

Now I need a video card for it and it has to be s-video, low profile, pci and cheap.
I have 3 cards I've been looking at:

1. SPARKLE GeForce 8400 GS
[URL]http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814187041[/URL]

2. JATON GeForce2 MX400 64MB
[URL]http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814139151[/URL]

3. DIAMOND Stealth Radeon 7000 64MB
[URL]http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814103160[/URL]

I'd like to be able to play up to playstation 1 emulated games on this.
Now I believe the 8400 is the best bet, but can a stock psu from a dell 2400 support it?
Also feel free tho throw in any opinions/objections, thanks!

[OCELOT320]

get 8400gs

[butre]

8400gs, but get the a different one, sparkle is a shit brand. There is a PNY 512 MB one for just a few bucks more.

[cryticfarm]

4350

[Ironic Man]

I opened the computer up and the psu is;

200 watts
+12V/10A
+5V/22A
+3.3V/14A

Anyone know if this thing has enough juice for an 8400?
-snip-

Pny card had no s video ;/

[BlueSaint]

Buy the most costly card out right now.
That will run pac-man just fine.

[Ironic Man]

[QUOTE=BlueSaint;19565816]Buy the most costly card out right now.
That will run pac-man just fine.[/QUOTE]

Some games require better graphics cards, mortal combat and a bunch of others require something more. Also I need s video to output to a tv. And I could run other things that use a 4-way joy and 6 buttons.
Please contribute or gtfo please.

Hugs and kisses
~Ironic Man

[butre]

if you need the s video then I suppose the sparkle is fine.

Anyway, I've got an 8400 GS in a system with a 250w PSU.

An 8400GS uses about 30 watts at full load. Add the CPU, hard drives, etc. I'd say full load would be no more about 150w.

[Ironic Man]

Alright, thanks buttsex, I knew i could always count on you.

Edit:
I was searching ebay to see if i could find it cheaper and i found this thing:

[img]http://imgs.inkfrog.com/pix/webweb/30009-1.jpg[/img]
[URL]http://cgi.ebay.com/Adaptor-for-VGA-D-Sub-to-SVideo-S-Video-RCA-TV-Cable-PC_W0QQitemZ260477902814QQcmdZViewItemQQptZLH_DefaultDomain_0?hash=item3ca5b15fde[/URL]

It seems too easy, but what is stopping me from putting one of those on the onboard and using that?

[Error_404]

Unless you have HD3200 or HD4200 as your onboard, then you'd get MUCH better performance with a dedicated card.

[BoingBoing]

[QUOTE=Ironic Man;19561695]-sneep-[/QUOTE]

8400 GS? I have it, never heard of "SPARKLE" but mine sucks balls, can't even run CS:S on the lowest settings without lag.
But don't take advice from me, I don't know anything about hardware, or what this SPARKLE means.

Well, if you were going to play pac-man on it then I suppose its fine.

[Disarray]

[QUOTE=BoingBoing;19571811]8400 GS? I have it, never heard of "SPARKLE" but mine sucks balls, can't even run CS:S on the lowest settings without lag.
But don't take advice from me, I don't know anything about hardware, or what this SPARKLE means.

Well, if you were going to play pac-man on it then I suppose its fine.[/QUOTE]

Sparkle is the manufacturer. Like PNY, ASUS.

[Zeraux]

My father build an arcade machine. I think he used a Geforce 7800 if I remember correctly.

[sbradford26]

[QUOTE=Error_404;19571026]Unless you have HD3200 or HD4200 as your onboard, then you'd get MUCH better performance with a dedicated card.[/QUOTE]

There is also the 3300 and yeah they are very good integrated. I was able to max source games on my 3300.

[MetricMoose]

[QUOTE=Ironic Man;19566585]Alright, thanks buttsex, I knew i could always count on you.

Edit:
I was searching ebay to see if i could find it cheaper and i found this thing:

[img]http://imgs.inkfrog.com/pix/webweb/30009-1.jpg[/img]
[URL]http://cgi.ebay.com/Adaptor-for-VGA-D-Sub-to-SVideo-S-Video-RCA-TV-Cable-PC_W0QQitemZ260477902814QQcmdZViewItemQQptZLH_DefaultDomain_0?hash=item3ca5b15fde[/URL]

It seems too easy, but what is stopping me from putting one of those on the onboard and using that?[/QUOTE]

The video card has to support it, which I doubt it does.