[mythtv-users] ASUS M2NPV-VM or GIGABYTE GA-M68SM-S2

[Jeppe N. Madsen]

On Fri, 21 Dec 2007, Mitch Gore wrote:

>  I have see lots of posts about the Asus.  People seem to use them
>  with good success.  I am upgraded my Mythbox due to getting tired
>  of XvMC, lock up with IVTV, and no suspend.  I want to do my
>  research this time and am interested in a few things:
>  
>  1.  Do any of these boards support Suspend out of the box with
>      Fedora 8?  S3
>  in particular
>  2.  Any issues with ivtv drivers?  (my current board gets buffer error and
>  then it locks up)
>  3.  General suggestions/comments?
>  
>  On a side note.  Currently i am running a P4 3.4Ghz.  What power
>  savings will i get compared to a Athlon X2 5200 65nm? (assuming i
>  leave it on all the time in dollars if that possible.)


I'm running a diskless frontend (using minimyth) on the Asus
board. Suspend to ram works, as well as resume via the MCE
remote. Power usage when idle (for the entire system) is 42w,
increasing to 48w when playing SDTV

/Jeppe