[mythtv-users] hardware compat question?

[Brian Wood]

On Mar 24, 2006, at 2:51 PM, Al McIntosh wrote:

> Hey,
>
> I am considering using the following board for a simple frontend. Has
> any one used one?
>
> QDI KuDoZ 7
> http://www.qdigrp.com/qdisite/eng/products/Kudoz7.htm
>

The IVTV site says that "some older Via chipsets" had insurmountable  
problems with DMA. I don't know what they mean by "older" but I  
suspect a Socket-A board might qualify. Check out the IVTV  site for  
more info.

Note also that the AGP port is only 4X, although I don't really think  
that would be a problem.

The USB ports are only v1.1, if you wanted to connect a backup hard  
drive you would do a lot of waiting. You would also not be able to  
use a USB capture device, although with room for 5 PCI cards that  
shouldn't be a problem, or a USB 2.0 PCI card is cheap as well.

If you can get a red-hot price on it I'd give it a try, otherwise I'd  
go with a Socket 754 or 939 AMD board. A socket 754 Sempron would be  
about the same price and would have an upgrade path to an Athlon if  
you need it later. Socket 939 boards are probably going to drop very  
quickly when the M2 mobos hit the market later this year.