<div dir="ltr"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Sep 1, 2008 at 7:47 AM, Sixten Otto <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:himself%2Bmyth@sfko.com">himself+myth@sfko.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
<div class="Ih2E3d">On Sun, Aug 31, 2008 at 9:34 AM, Allen Edwards<br>
<<a href="mailto:allen.p.edwards@gmail.com">allen.p.edwards@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
> 1) Buy an Intel board. On the phone with Asus the conclusion as to why my<br>
> board would not boot with the nvidia drivers and the Air2PC board; AMD<br>
> chipsets are not very good. Intel chipsets have fewer compatability<br>
> problems.<br>
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</div>Browsing over the stuff on Newegg (and discussions online), there seem<br>
to be quite a few different Intel chipsets being used. Any opinions /<br>
conventional wisdom on choosing one over another?<br>
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> 5) Don't use XvMC. It can work, but it isn't worth the trouble. Newer PCs<br>
> don't need it. Use SLIM if you don't have the power.<br>
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</div>SLIM?<br>
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> 6) If you are going to use mythbuntu, if you have any problem when you are<br>
> installing, like click x instead of y, start over.<br>
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</div>After the (fruitless) struggles I had trying to get my old box working<br>
right with 8.04 (a driver issue, I believe), I feel like I could<br>
install Mythbuntu with my eyes closed. :-/<br>
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Sixten</div></div></blockquote></div><br>My daughter just bought a computer from a guy who makes them up. He makes huge numbers of computers, like all the computers for a hospital chain and stuff like that. We specified only the processor speed, nvidia 6200 or better 2D video, and memory, as I recall. Here is what he came up with.<br>
<br>E8400BOX Intel Core 2 Duo Processor E8400 3GHz 1333MHz 6MB LGA775 CPU<br>
MB-P5QL-P Asus P5QL PRO Core 2 Extreme/ Intel P43/ FSB 1600/ DDR2/<br>
A&GbE/ ATX/ EPU Motherboard<br>
T800UB2GEP STT DDR2-800 2GB/128x8 Elpida Chip Memory 2 each<br>
CA-C589AQB In-Win C589T.AQ350BL 350W ATX v2.2 Mid Tower Case (Black)<br>
GA-86GT512 GIGABYTE nVidia GeForce 8600GT Silent 512MB 2DVI/HDCP<br>
PCI-Express Video Card<br>
HD-ST750S32 Seagate ST3750320AS 750GB SATA2 7200rpm 32MB Hard Drive<br><br>So, if it were me, I would go with this stuff. It wasn't for a myth system but it wasn't a gaming PC either, so it should be close. <br>
<br>SLIM is a playback profile. It doesn't use XvMC but is easy on the processor. I use it on my 2.4GHz P4 and it works OK. I did not like the result using XvMC even with 5400+ CPU. Basically, if you don't skip or fast forward or pause, and you have a very limited CPU, you can use XvMC.<br>
<br>Back on MB and chipsets. I think you need to think about the capability you want. If the above board does what you want, get it. If you want RAID, you will need a different chipset. Some chipsets allow dual video cards for hard core gamers. You don't want that. Others have onboard video. Some allow faster RAM. I thought I was getting that and bought the more expensive RAM only to find that there was some * like, I needed a different CPU so I wasted $20 on the RAM. The above spec is also nice in that you know all this stuff will work together and be reasonable cost. <br>
<br>By the way, this case is wonderful but it is a tower.<br><br>Hope this helps,<br><br>Allen<br><br></div>