[mythtvnz] Nvidia GPU M/B

Steven Ellis steven at openmedia.co.nz
Sun Feb 1 20:37:24 GMT 2009


Jean-Yves Avenard wrote:
> Hi
>
> 2009/2/1 Robin Gilks <g8ecj at gilks.org>:
>   
>> The goal posts are of course moving all the time so its VDPAU compatible
>> Nvidia with a bios option to map up to 512megs of RAM this month!!
>>
>> HDMI would be nice, S/PDIF essential (either coax or optical) and
>> preferably a motherboard that doesn't require totally bleeding edge
>> drivers for the audio etc. I'll be booting diskless so the only SATA
>> connector I'll be looking for will be for the DVD drive. Low enough power
>> to run from a 200w 12volt PSU would also be nice - works wonders getting
>> rid of the PSU fan by having an external brick.
>>     
>
> There aren't that many options...
>
> Gigabyte have a 9400GM based motherboard
> MSI and Asus have one 9300GM based motherboard.
>
> All those companies only have one motherboard with a nvidia 9xxx chipset.
> All of them are uATX motherboard...
>   
My preference right now is see what the first NVidia ION systems look
like with the Atom processor.

Also I wish more MB makers would make clear the max amount of ram you
can allocate to the onboard graphics as a lot top out at 512MB Ram.

Steve




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