[mythtv-users] Advice on Building a Quiet MythTV Box?

Charles Iliya Krempeaux charles at reptile.ca
Sun Nov 16 20:53:10 UTC 2008


Hello,

On Sun, Nov 16, 2008 at 12:42 PM, Carl-Magnus Björkell
<carl-magnus.bjorkell at pp.inet.fi> wrote:
> Charles Iliya Krempeaux wrote:

[...]

> However, if you've followed the mailing lists you've seen that nVidia
> recently released drivers that allow GPU assisted decoding of h264,
> which would help alot in creating a quiet HD-able system. I haven't
> tested the new beta drivers myself, but according to the benchmarks at
> Phoronix
> (http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=nvidia_vdpau&num=1)
> it should be really _really_ effective. You'd probably want to look into
> that some more :)

I just joined the mailing list... so I don't really have much of a
background on MythTV yet.  But anyways....

Are there any graphics cards, with this GPU, that are quiet?  (Which I
guess would mean fan-less?)

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Charles Iliya Krempeaux, B.Sc.
http://changelog.ca/


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