[mythtv-users] nvidia card on a budget suggestions

Mike Isely isely at isely.net
Tue May 31 20:22:52 UTC 2005


On Tue, 31 May 2005, Lonnie Borntreger wrote:

> On Tue, 2005-05-31 at 10:58 -0700, Fedor Pikus wrote:
> > If you want "HD-out", i.e. component TV-out, your choices start with
> > GeForce 6200, which go for just over $100. Otherwise, there are many
> > Geforce 5700 or even 5200 with TV-out (SVideo and composite) and dual
> > DVI/VGA, like this one:
>
> Whatever you do, stay away from the 5200.  I bought one, and had nothing
> but trouble (system lock-ups, oopses, crashes, etc).  Went to the nVidia
> forums and everyone there was saying that it is a complete POS, even in
> Windows.  So, I ebay'd a Ti4200 and it's been beautiful ever since.  I
> had been using a GeForce2 GTS with no problems until the fan failed and
> the GPU fried.

Really?!?

I have 3 different systems right now with 5200-class Nvidia cards, using
the 1.0.7174 nvidia driver and kernel 2.6.11.10 and all are functioning
well.  They are all using "XFX" brand variations with passive cooling, but
I've also used the "Mad Dog" brand at CompUSA with success (at least until
the crappy cooling fans seize up).  One of the three systems is my mythtv
box, and it's working fine.

I went with this series of board based on chatter seen here last Nov-Jan,
after discovering that the ATI 9200SE P.O.S. boards couldn't scale video
fast enough to keep up at HDTV resolutions.

Can a Ti4200 do hardware (i.e. xvideo) scaling fast enough for HDTV?

  -Mike


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