[mythtv-users] Vid card recommendation

Brian Wood beww at beww.org
Wed Mar 26 14:04:48 UTC 2008


On Mar 25, 2008, at 11:05 PM, DaveD wrote:
> What I like best about my 5200 is that it runs the legacy drivers  
> which
> GREATLY reduces CPU load during playback of HD content AND provides  
> the
> video overlay, which gives brightness/contrast control.   
> Unfortunately,
> my new MB is PCIE and there's no PCIE version of the 5200 (sob).   
> But my
> wife's computer benefits from my old 5200, though....

The 5300 is essentially a 5200 with a PCI-Express interface.

Good luck finding one though, they seem to be quite rare.

beww



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