[mythtv-users] Cheap GeForce4 MX 440

[Big Wave Dave]

Looks like I am running an NV18 as well.  The picture quality is
pretty good with SVIDEO, in my opinion.  I guess its hard to say
unless I had an NV17 to compare it to.

Dave


On Wed, 23 Mar 2005 18:53:25 -0500, Craig Partin <cpartin at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Wed, 23 Mar 2005 14:11:23 -0800, Big Wave Dave <bigwavedave at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Probably a silly question... How can you find out if you have NV17 or
> > NV18... etc.
> >
> > Dave
> 
> lspci will tell you.  I have 2 NV18 boards and they seem fine to me.
> Maybe I am less sensitive to TV quality than others, but it looks
> pretty good to me.
> 
> >
> > On Wed, 23 Mar 2005 17:06:36 -0500, Joseph A. Caputo
> > <jcaputo1 at comcast.net> wrote:
> > > On Wednesday 23 March 2005 16:56, Will Dormann wrote:
> > > > Shawn Asmussen wrote:
> > > > >
> > > > > Anybody thinking about getting one of these should keep in mind that
> > > a
> > > > > significant number of people (including myself) have had problems
> > > with
> > > > > the MX 440 and Nvidia's more recent driver versions. Unless you're
> > > > > really trying hard to save the money, my recommendation would be to
> > > > > shell out the extra $30 or so and get at least a 5200.
> > > >
> > > > What sort of problems?
> > > >
> > > > I'm running an MX4000 (Die-shrunk MX 440) with no real problems.
> > >
> > > Different revision of the GF4 MX 440 use(d) different TV encoder chips
> > > for their TV-out.  Depending on who you ask, some are great and some
> > > suck.
> > >
> > > My original LeadTek GF4 MX 420 used an NV17 encoder chip, which was
> > > probably about as good as I could have wanted without going to a
> > > PVR-350 or DVI/component.
> > >
> > > My new(er) on-board (Chaintech 7NIF2) GF4 MX 440 uses an NV18 encoder,
> > > which IMHO really sucks.
> > >
> > > Just my $.02.
> > >
> > > -JAC
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