[mythtvnz] My New Setup

[Tortise]

----- Original Message ----- 
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


> ----- 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
>
>
> 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 outdated already and won't give you much satisfaction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?