[mythtv-users] need vid card with s-video, pci-x16 that "just works"

Andrew Lyon andrew.lyon at gmail.com
Thu Jan 4 14:33:27 UTC 2007


On 1/4/07, Stroller <linux.luser at myrealbox.com> wrote:
>
> On 4 Jan 2007, at 03:11, Dave wrote:
>
> > All Nvidia cards with svideo out work great in xorg, try to get a 5xx0
> > series card, I have a 5750 PCI-E, but it has a fan, couldnt find one
> > without, might just change out the heatsink/fan for a heatsink only
> > if I
> > could find them somewhere
>
> Hi there,
>
> I'm graphics card shopping myself at the moment (see [1]) and may
> well end up with a nVidia.
>
> Why do you suggest a 5000-series rather than the 6000 or 7000? These
> 6000- & 7000-series cards seem to be more readily available & so I
> assumed they were later models. I therefore assumed longer support
> for them in nVidia's binary drivers.
>
> Assuming I was to end up with a 6000- & 7000-series card I had
> thought to replace the fan (which I assumed to be the most common
> factory-installed configuration) with an after-market heatsink. Maybe
> this is an unreasonable hope? Do these cards produce too much heat
> for that?
>
> Stroller.
>

I use one of these
http://www.quietpc.com/gb-en-gbp/products/components/msi-nx7600gt-t2d256ez
which is passively cooled, running at 1920x1080p from DVI -> HDMI 60hz
perfect picture for both sd and hdtv.

Andy

>
>
> [1] http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/mythtv/users/244067#244067
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