[mythtvnz] New silent Nvidia card / USB DVB-S tuner

[stuart]

  On 9/11/2010 4:19 PM, stuart wrote:
>  I am running a Asus gt 220 bravo that you a looking at and nova t 500 
> for hd on a 2 gig dual core with 2gig of ram with no problems on the 
> mythbuntu.
> Stu
>
> On 9/11/2010 8:13 AM, Brett wrote:
>> On Fri, 2010-09-10 at 17:11 +1200, Stephen Worthington wrote:
>>> Before the GST goes up next month, I thought it was about time to
>>> upgrade the video card in my MythTV box.  It currently has an Nvidia
>>> 8400GS silent card, which is OK but does not do the best deinterlace
>>> modes.  I have found this:
>>>
>>>    http://www.pp.co.nz/products.php?pp_id=AA22908
>>>
>>> which is a silent GT220 card.  So, is a GT220 all that is needed for
>>> the highest interlace modes in MythTV?  Does anyone have any other
>>> suggestions?
>>>
>>> And since the silent GT220 cards all need two slots, it looks like I
>>> will need to get a USB DVB-S (or preferably DVB-S2) tuner.  So far I
>>> have not found any in NZ that are supported - the old Hauppauge DVB-S
>>> one seems to have gone out of production.  Any suggestions?
>>>
>> Can only confirm that the GT240 works very well, the improvement over a
>> 9400GT was much greater than expected.
>> Avoid the GT210 as has very bad reviews for de-interlacing&
>> scaling/sharpening artefacts but this is not the same GPU as used in
>> GT220.
>>
>> Using feature set C options has appeared to increase A/V sync offset
>> from close to 0ms (9400GT) to about 60-100ms. Maybe a default offset can
>> be configured ?
>>
>> You could make up custom heatsink to fit your PC case.
>> Could use a VGA boiler tube arrangement with almost no airflow if you
>> have the luxury of room or to move the heatsink away from the videocard.
>> The GT220 TDP 58 W vs. GT 240 TDP 70W&  the price difference is small.
>>
>>
>> B
>>
>>
>>
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