[mythtvnz] My New Setup

[Brett Miller]

That is still a waste of money..
You need feature set & sufficient gflops & RAM.

The minimum recommended GPU is GT220 with 512M.
The GT210 is the best silent card available now in New Zealand.

Brett.

On 8/05/2010 10:01 p.m., Tortise wrote:
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> From: "Tortise"<tortise at paradise.net.nz>
> To: "MythTV in NZ"<mythtvnz at lists.linuxnut.co.nz>
> Sent: Saturday, May 08, 2010 7:35 PM
> Subject: Re: [mythtvnz] My New Setup
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>> ----- Original Message -----
>> From: "Jean-Yves Avenard"<jyavenard at gmail.com>
>> To: "MythTV in NZ"<mythtvnz at lists.linuxnut.co.nz>
>> Sent: Saturday, May 08, 2010 2:33 PM
>> Subject: Re: [mythtvnz] My New Setup
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>>
>> Hi
>>
>> On 8 May 2010 07:40, David Kirk<davidrkirk at gmail.com>  wrote:
>>      
>>> I got a Antec NSK1480 case and put a Gigabyte GA-M85M-U2SH motherboard
>>> in it. The motherboard has a NVidia GeForce 8200 chipset built in.
>>> That motherboard was very hard to get hold of. There were a few
>>> online vendors who showed that they had them, but when it came time to
>>> order, they didn't have the stock and couldn't get it. I ended up
>>> getting it from Global PC for a lot more that it was being advertised
>>> everywhere else (even after the discount they gave me). What's really
>>> disappointing though, is that there are some other cheaper
>>> motherboards available with GeForce 7xxx chipsets on them. Aparently
>>> they also support VDPAU. Too late, it's done now.
>>>        
>>      
>>> It seems that you went to great length of trouble, for something that
>>>        
>> is really.... outdated already and won't give you much satisfaction
>> The 8200 IGP doesn't have much grunt and will struggle even with VDPAU.
>>
>>
>> Given that it is a SLI motherboard I wonder if something like a
>> http://www.trademe.co.nz/Computers/Components/Video-cards/PCIExpress/auction-288370560.htm could be slotted on - and get the vdpau
>> grunt that is being described, as well as the component out, not to mention the price....?   Might be good for the current TV, as
>> well as beef up the vdpau for HDMI?
>>
>>      
> Actually http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_Nvidia_graphics_processing_units#GeForce_8_.288xxx.29_series suggests the SLI
> chips started with>= 8500, not sure how compatible the various combinations are though.  Anyone?
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