[mythtv-users] Temporary graphics card for 780G system

kanetse@gmail.com kane.tse at gmail.com
Mon Dec 1 09:16:41 UTC 2008


On Sun, Nov 30, 2008 at 11:44 PM,  <twenty.seven at arcor.de> wrote:
> Hi everyone!
>
> In a recent issue of the distinguished german computer magazine c't, there was a detailed proposal for an energy efficient and quiet AMD system. They tested all components for compatibility and found the resulting system to be remarkably quiet and power saving. I would like to build a MythTV box (combined BE/FE) based on these recommendations, as I trust in those guys and my own overview of current hardware is quite limited (though a built a couple of systems in the last 15 years). I just don't want to do any hardware experiments on my own and finally get a noisier system consuming 20 W more power than actually neccessary.
>
> BUT:
> They used a mainboard with the AMD 780G chipset, which -- as far as I know -- is still not really usable for MythTV. Therefore, I would like to temporarily use a separate PCIe graphics card and hope for the 780G drivers to get usable in the next months. At the moment, I just watch SD TV, so I don't need HDTV and BlueRay support yet (but the system should, in principle, be capable of this). My TV is a recent Panasonic LCD, so I want to connect the MythBox via HDMI or DVI-to-HDMI.
>
> What do you think about this? Which graphic card would you recommend? I thought about the Nvidia Geforce 6600 as it is available with HDMI, cheap, and the Nvidia driver supports XvMC.
>
> Thanks in advance!
> twenty
>

Hi there,

I have almost the same motherboard, the GA-MA78GM-S2H; with a
different CPU - AMD Athlon 64 X2 5000.  I had similar problems getting
the video to work properly.  I added a GeForce 7200GS PCI-e card into
the machine.  At the time, there was no info about VDPAU, and I wanted
a card with XvMC support.  It works perfectly, although with the CPU
power was great enough that I was able to decode MPEG2 HDTV without
the need for video-card acceleration.

The 7200GS I bought has DVI, and I used a DVI-HDMI cable to hook it up
to my HDTV.

Given the recent information and excitement about VDPAU, I might have
made a different choice in terms of the video card; but at the time
XvMC was the best choice available for hardware acceleration.

Hope this solid information about a working configuration helps.


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