I'd go with the one with the most PCI slots. AGP works just fine for video in my experience. <br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Jan 29, 2008 12:27 PM, Colin McGregor <<a href="mailto:spamtrap151@rogers.com">spamtrap151@rogers.com</a>> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">Interesting situation, currently my main MythTV box is an AMD 64 3200+ on an<br>Asus A8S-X motherboard with an PCI-E nVidia 6200 video card. For the most<br>
part part I am happy with that as a combination. The one (small) issue I<br>have is that I am now out of PCI slots having filled them with the following:<br><br>- Hauppage PVR-150<br>- Hauppage PVR-350<br>- pcHDTV 5500<br>
<br>I have the option of replacing that with a P4 3.0 GHz on an Asus P4C800-E<br>motherboard and a AGP 8x nVidia 6200 video card. Things like the tuners would<br>be moved from one motherboard to the other (and would allow me to drop in an<br>
Adaptec VideoOh! tuner card in addition to the above). Benchmarks seem to<br>suggest that the P4 3.0 GHz will typically out perform the AMD by a modest<br>margin (due to higher clock speed). On the other hard, how much of a hit will<br>
video performance take going from PCI-E to AGP (my understanding is not<br>much). So, question is, am I better off changing things around?<br><br>The "loosing" motherboard will end up in my "testing" computer (for running<br>
different versions of Linux).<br><br>Thanks.<br><font color="#888888"><br>Colin McGregor<br>_______________________________________________<br>mythtv-users mailing list<br><a href="mailto:mythtv-users@mythtv.org">mythtv-users@mythtv.org</a><br>
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