Hi Lindsay.<br><br>I've got the Gigabyte equivalent(ish) with the 690G chipset but wound up buying a cheap nVidia card when I couldn't get satisfactory results from the ATI drivers. The rate that the Radeon and RadeonHD drivers are coming along MAY mean that the X1250 is OK now, but I'm in the position of "it ain't broke, don't fix it".<br>
<br>I haven't tried the optical SPDIF out although that is in the plan at some stage.<br><br>HTH<br>Greg |:^)<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">2008/6/10 lindsay.mathieson <<a href="mailto:lindsay.mathieson@optusnet.com.au">lindsay.mathieson@optusnet.com.au</a>>:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">Bit of a list I know :) but they're all price competitive.<br>
Its a good time to be buying integrated M/B's, but the<br>
driver support is an issue :(<br>
<br>
Basically looking to playback SD and occasional HD (no<br>
H.264). CPU will be at least a AMD 4800+, output will be<br>
DVI/HDMI to a good quality plasma. Not fussed re XvMC<br>
support.<br>
<br>
Just agonising over the M/B.<br>
<br>
Asus M2N-VM-DVI F7050<br>
- NVidia 7050<br>
- Seems well supported by Linux,<br>
- XvMC<br>
- Older now<br>
<br>
Asus M3N78-EMH HDMI<br>
- NVidia 8200<br>
- Recent reports seem to indicate it barely works under<br>
Linux which surprises me, is this really the case?<br>
<br>
<br>
Asus M2A-VM AM2 AMD690G<br>
- 690G Chipset<br>
- ATI Radeon X1250<br>
- XvMC?<br>
- Linux Support?<br>
- Older now<br>
<br>
Asus M3A78-EMH-HDMI AM2+ AMD780G<br>
Gigabyte GA-MA78GM-S2H AMD780G<br>
- 790G Chipset<br>
- ATI Radeon HD3200<br>
- XvMC?<br>
- Linux Support?<br>
<br>
<br>
The feature set of the 780G is great but I tend towards<br>
NVidia video as the driver support seems better. Have had<br>
bad experiences with ATI in the past ...<br>
<br>
However the 8200 seems to be a non-starter at the the moment<br>
and the 7050 is near obsolete. But so long as I can play SD<br>
and HD why should I care?<br>
<br>
Opinions?<br>
<br>
Thanks - Lindsay<br>
<br>
Lindsay<br>
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