<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Sep 4, 2009 at 11:26 AM, Johnny <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:jarpublic@gmail.com">jarpublic@gmail.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="im">> In order to keep power consumption low, is there a AM3 motherboard with<br>
> integrated video capable of running VDPAU decently? I don't believe I need<br>
> the greatest deinterlacing. Nvidia-based AM3 boards seem to be hard to come<br>
> by since AMD+ATI merged. A cheap AM3 motherboard is around $70-$90, but<br>
> comes with ATI graphics. I could add a 9500GT add-in card, but who knows<br>
> what the total power footprint would be.<br>
<br>
</div>I think the best integrated nvidia with an AMD board is the 8300. I<br>
believe it is basically like an integrated version of the discrete<br>
8400. I recall people saying that it works fine except that like the<br>
8400 you can't do Advanced 2x deinterlacing. This is the only board<br>
on newegg that had AM3 and an 8300:<br>
<a href="http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813131382" target="_blank">http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813131382</a>.<br>
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</div></div></blockquote></div><br>I have the AM2+ uATX version of this board (M3N78-VM). I'm using it as a test combined fe/be for Trunk, and it works well and supports VDPAU with the onboard 8200 graphics. <br><br>
<a href="http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813131318">http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813131318</a><br><br>I currently have an AM2 Athlon 64 X2 4800 cpu in there, and 4GB DDR2 400 ram in dual-channel mode.<br>
<br>This probably isn't the best board for a backend though since it's mATX, and only has 4 slots (2-pci, 1-1xPCIe and 1-16xPCIe (in x8 mode iirc) -- but that may be sufficient enough for some folks. ;-) I bought it to use for a frontend at some point in time, and have just been using it as a test box for now.<br>
<br>J-e-f-f-A<br><br>