[mythtv-users] Nvidia chipset motherboard recommendations

[Joseph Fry]

On Fri, Nov 8, 2013 at 10:53 AM, Rajil Saraswat <rajil.s at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> nvidia hasn't made chipsets for x86 boards in many years.
>>
>> Unless you're buying vintage equipment (and "5. AMD board preferred since
>> processors are cheaper." seems to indicate you're not since buying outdated
>> CPU/memory/motherboards is *much* more expensive than buying modern), you'll
>> have to buy a system with some other chipset and then add a discrete nvidia
>> video card.  An alternative (but, again, *much* more expensive) is to buy a
>> motherboard with an integrated nvidia mobile GPU (i.e. as used in laptops).
>>
>> Fortunately, though, you can disable the integrated (on mobo or on APU) GPU
>> in the BIOS and the power usage due to it's being there is negligible.
>>
>> Mike
>
>
> Looks like I will have to go with a new system altogether. I have been
> looking at the current Intel offerings. Is Intel G2020 good for a
> combined BE/FE? My main purpose is to SD recordings and convert them
> to H.264 mkv files using mencoder. I had been happily doing this with
> AMD Athlon II X2 250 card until now.
>
> The i3 CPU is more expensive and supports hyper-threading. Is
> hyper-threading useful with mythtv/mencoder?

I have found that the recent Celeron processors are plenty fast enough
for just about everything I throw at them.  Spend your good money on a
Mobo that will take a more powerful processor in the future, and drop
in a $50 celeron.  You should have plenty of horsepower for right now,
and if you decide you need more in a year or two, try and pick up a
CPU upgrade on Ebay for half what you would spend on it now.