[mythtv-users] Will a PcChips M789CLU C3 2000+ with WinPVR card suffice?

R. G. Newbury newbury at mandamus.org
Thu Feb 2 20:36:54 UTC 2006


Jo Shields wrote:
> Mike wrote:
>
>   
>> Francesco Peeters wrote:
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>>
>>     
>>> A friend pointed me to the PcChips M789CLU C3 2000+ MoBo, which has built
>>> in everything, but runs on a VIA C3 at 900MHz.
>>>  
>>>    
>>>
>>>       
>> I don't know about other people but I've just come to the conclusion 
>> that you can't use anything on motherboards infected with VIA chipsets. 
>> I've had way too many problems in the past with things like PVR500's and 
>> it's PCB bridge and VIA's ill designed IRQ and DMA handling. I'm won't 
>> even attempt to use them anymore because its just not worth it to me to 
>> find another faulty chipset. Everything, and I mean everything else that 
>> I've tried in AMD, Intel, and SIS chipsets has worked just fine while 
>> almost all VIA chipsets have had problems for me.......
>>
>> -Mike
>>
>>     
>
> I think that's something of a generalization.
>
> KT133 had some major IDE controller issues. KT133, 266 and 333 were a 
> little badly behaved in terms of PCI bus flooding (especially when a 
> Sound Blaster got involved). KT600 was uncompetitive compared to 
> nforce4, if a reasonable chipset. The AMD64 range (e.g. K8T800) are 
> pretty good, and considered a good choice for those wanting better Linux 
> support than nForce4 offers.
>
> Personally I've had more grief with SiS than Via, and my K8T800 board 
> works fine.

A very bad generalization about a generation of chips which are 
basically no longer in use. I'm running a Epia SP13000 motherboard and 
all of its chips work fine. Need some tweaking for good performance but 
that's all. I've had more trouble with my HD3000 card than anything else.

Geoff



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