On Sun, Nov 8, 2009 at 11:36 AM, Steve Hill <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:steve@nexusuk.org">steve@nexusuk.org</a>></span> wrote:<br><div class="gmail_quote"><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">On Sun, 8 Nov 2009, Richard Morton wrote:<br>
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In brief, yes; but make sure you buy a board with VDPAU supported<br>
chipset like the Zotac boards otherwise the small Atom chips wont cope<br>
with HD.<br>
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Hmm, ok. That means getting an nVidia chipset though, and I swore off nVidia many years ago after getting bitten too many times by their crappy drivers and lack of giving a damn about my bug reports... :(<br>
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I'm tempted to err towards a Core 2 based mini-ITX system, just for the safety of knowing I have enough CPU grunt without relying on crazy-ass proprietary drivers.<br>
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Thanks.<div class="im"><br>
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- Steve<br>
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</div></blockquote></div><br><br clear="all">Well the Atom/Ion combo is a fantastic combination - low energy usage, virtually silent in operation, compact and it with VDPAU enabled the de-interlacer, picture quality is truly impressive. My family cannot tell the HD picture quality from a Freesat HD box...and thats impressive in my book :-)<br>
<br>The nVidia 185.xx drivers are very reliable in my experience and you really will be missing out if you dont use an nVidia based GPU.<br><br>Andrew<br>