[mythtv-users] The best VDPAU video card

[Calvin Harrigan]

Brian Wood wrote:
> On Thursday 19 February 2009 22:47:55 Jean-Yves Avenard wrote:
> 
>> If you want something fanless, it will have to be a 8400, 8600, 9400
>> or 9500. I don't think there are any fanless 9600 and above
> 
> I just got a fanless 9500, one thing to watch out for:
> 
> It may cost you a PCI slot, many heatsinks (like mine) are so large they block 
> the adjacent PCI slot.
> 
> You might want to look for a mobo that has extra space, or perhaps a 
> PCIExpress-X1 slot next to it, those don't get used often.
> 
> It frustrated me to lose an encoder due to this, and I would rather have had 
> to put up with a fan. Usually you can replace the crappy fan that comes with 
> graphics cards with a good quality one which is more reliable and quieter. 
> 
> Ideally I'd like to use no internal capture devices, but the PVRs are great 
> for baseband capture.
> 

I can second that, I recently got a 9500gt fanless, the heat sink took 
up a pci slot.  It was this one:
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814187034

On the plus side it does everything I wanted to do sans the vc-1, but I 
don't have any vc-1 sources so I'm happy.