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How to add an HDMI output to my PC?

I'm moving, and am going to buy a new HDTV for the apartment. I'm thinking about connecting my self-built PC to the TV. The only thing is that my PC has only one PCIx16 2.0 slot. The card in that slot has two DVI ports. I have two monitors, and I would like to keep both of them connected by DVI. That leaves me with 0 available HD outputs.

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bert [Entry]

"You could look into adding a PCI card with DVI or HDMI onto it to power the HDTV. Assuming you don't plan on gaming on it and just want to watch HD content, this should be more than enough and will keep you out of the extremely high-priced triple interface cards.

Edit: Suggestions

Anything from this list should be good. They all have DVI and are HDCP compliant, but adapters to HDMI are cheap.

http://www.newegg.com/Product/ProductList.aspx?Submit=ENE&N=2010380048+1069609642+1305520548+1320022195&QksAutoSuggestion=&ShowDeactivatedMark=False&Configurator=&Subcategory=48&description=&Ntk=&CFG=&SpeTabStoreType=&srchInDesc=

If you have an unused PCIe x1 slot then http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814161280 should work even better as it has a native HDMI port.

I'm sure if you shop around you can find better prices on all of these, they're just examples."
bert [Entry]

There are 152 cards on Newegg that feature 1 HDMI output. Since you can add a card to your existing machine pick one that fits the interface types you do have open like PCIe X1 (there's 1) AGP (there's 4) or just PCI (Newegg doesn't have one but they exist). Also consider getting a card that does not feature an HDMI output, but which has the interface type you can support and get an output converter to HDMI, maybe from monoprice.com.