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<p><tt>-----Richard Shaw wrote: -----<br>
</tt><tt>>> Why not get a motherboard with integrated Nvidia graphics?<br>
</tt><tt>>> I have an Asus M3N78-EM which seems to work quite well with VDPAU.<br>
</tt><tt>>> http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813131354<br>
</tt><tt>>> This is mATX, but I think this motherboard is the same but ATX:<br>
</tt><tt>>> http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813131320<br>
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</tt><tt>>My last two motherboards were ASUS, and although I still hold this in<br>
</tt><tt>>high regard, they both went out in 2 years. The first one was that<br>
</tt><tt>>bad<br>
</tt><tt>>capacitor issue (brown ant hills on 8 caps) and I suspect the second<br>
</tt><tt>>was for the same reason (one bulging cap). My current MB is a<br>
</tt><tt>>Gigabyte<br>
</tt><tt>>with all solid caps for that reason and it's an AMD 770 chipset and I<br>
</tt><tt>>like it a lot.<br>
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</tt><tt>>Additonally I'm currently driving my LCD via VGA because it will not<br>
</tt><tt>>accept it's native resolution (1366x768) over HDMI, only 720p or<br>
</tt><tt>>1080i, so with that one I would still need a video card. I like the<br>
</tt><tt>>video card w/ all 3 types so if I get a new TV I can try all 3 and go<br>
</tt><tt>>with what gives me the best results. Also, I wanted a 9xxx series<br>
</tt><tt>>card<br>
</tt><tt>>for VC-1 acceleration. I'm not sure if any BlueRay disks use it in<br>
</tt><tt>>the<br>
</tt><tt>>US but I wanted to have my bases covered.<br>
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</tt><tt>>Besides that I'm just not a fan of onboard video. No rational reason,<br>
</tt><tt>>I just don't like it :)<br>
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</tt><tt>>Richard<br>
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<tt>The Asus M3N78-EM is all solid caps.<br>
</tt><tt>The Asus M3N78-EM has one VGA, one DVI and one HDMI output, and also optical SPDIF/Toslink.<br>
</tt><tt>The onboard graphics seems to support VC-1 decoding according to this utility: <a href="http://www.nvnews.net/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=124978">http://www.nvnews.net/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=124978</a></tt><br>
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<tt>But I am not the one bying hardware (I have already done that). Just trying to give advice/share resent experiences with new hardware.</tt></body></html>