[mythtv-users] PCChips Geode MoBo?

[Francesco Peeters]

Warren schreef:
> White Joe wrote:
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>>>On 3/29/06, Francesco Peeters <francesco at fampeeters.com> wrote:
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>>>>LOL... The SP8000 and SP13000 are exactly the same price... The only
>>>>question is: do you want a fan or not!  ;-)
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>>>And do you want MPEG4 acceleration or not?
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>>And do you like prime numbers multiplied by 1000, or not.
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> Actually they are CPU cock speeds in Mhz * 10
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> If the fan thing is what you are worried about, get the 13000 and 
> underclock it :)  Personally I have not found an MPEG4 clip that I have 
> not been able to play that is 720x480 or smaller on the M-series 
> motherboard using software decoding.  But since you are talking about 
> using a PVR150 card, if this is going to just be a PVR then the M series 
> is all you need since the resulting files will be mpeg-2.
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> W
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Well, I kinda like the idea of MPEG4 for longer term storage of tv 
shows, ripped DVDs, etc.

I wonder whether I would want to shell the extra money to have hardware 
accellerated MPEG4 though, if software can do it too...

I have a good stable (silent!) PSU, a 160 GB harddrive, a HTPC type 
case, and all I need is a good MoBo with CPU and memory... So I want to 
do it right, right from the bat!

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FP