<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">2008/6/27 RoboJ1M <<a href="mailto:jim.neave@googlemail.com">jim.neave@googlemail.com</a>>:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
<div><div></div><div class="Wj3C7c">On Fri, Jun 27, 2008 at 10:54 AM, Ian Clark <<a href="mailto:mrrooster@gmail.com" target="_blank">mrrooster@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br></div></div><div class="gmail_quote"><div><div>
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<br>[snip my ramblin']<br></blockquote></div></div><div><br>Interesting, if I have the choice I will only buy ATI (or Intel) graphics chips because of their serious support of open source drivers (as well as there now serious support of improving their closed source drivers as well, they're now even providing linux drivers on disk in the box! 8@)</div>
</div></blockquote><div><br>I ment 'nVidia chipsets' when saying the above, should've made myself clearer there.<br><br>nVidia gfx chips are top notch, and a seriously good choice for linux due to their excellent driver support.<br>
<br>ATI are improving. Actually, that's unfair, ATI are fine, but I have a little niggle with my ATI part at the moment:<br><br><a href="http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/mythtv/dev/335325?search_string=ati%20corruption;#335325">http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/mythtv/dev/335325?search_string=ati%20corruption;#335325</a><br>
<br>which is annoying but not a serious show stopper.<br><br>I also have vsync issues too. (Driving a CRT via svideo.) (The 'use openGL for vsync' doesn't change anything either.) <br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
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Hopefullly buy the time I have the money for all this a 780G mini-itx board will be out. *dribbles* 8)~<br></div></div></blockquote><div> <br>If I was rebuilding my myth box it would be a 780G and a Tri-core phenom, I was really impressed with the one I built for a friend. (Independant core clocking is nice.) It used about 90W idle, and 110W under load.<br>
<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"><div class="gmail_quote"><div><br>In my decade of PC building experience I too have sworn by the rule of spend-the-money-on-the-board-and-the-psu.<br>
<br>I've found:<br></div></div></blockquote><div><br>I've also been building PCs for a similar time, and the PSU is the most overlooked part of the PC. If you're PC doesn't weigh a ton (well, you know...) then it's not good. ;p <br>
</div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"><div class="gmail_quote"><div><br>1) Cheap board + Cheap PSU = BAD<br>2) Good board + Cheap PSU = BAD<br>
3) Good board + Good PSU = GOOD<br><br>But I have yet to try:<br><br>4) Cheap board + Good PSU = ????<br><br>Asrock. I know a man who owns an Asrock board with an Enermax PSU and he says it's flawless.<br>
Although I realise that Asrock, although a budget manufacturer, is a sister company of one of the good manufacturers.</div></div></blockquote><div> </div><div>Asus I believe. <br><br>In my opinion cheap boards are just more of a risk, you may get a good one, but the chances are if it's cheaper it's had less design and has poorer quality components, it's likely, especially under heavy load, that thse might conspire to trip you up with some really odd errors.<br>
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