[mythtv-users] nvidia card on a budget suggestions

Garry Cook garrycook at gmail.com
Tue May 31 20:29:38 UTC 2005


On 5/31/05, Lonnie Borntreger <myth at borntreger.com> 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.
> 
> Lonnie Borntreger

Funny. I've never had any trouble with my 5200. It's fanless, and I
picked it up on ebay for $50. Granted, I'm not using it for HDTV
(although I plan to eventually), so maybe that's the issue. Normally I
would say that you really shouldn't make a statement like the one you
started with above, just based on your own experience. However, if it
is true that many others you've spoken with are also having issues,
perhaps I just got lucky.
--Garry


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