[mythtv-users] kindly asking for recommendation: tv-out card in Germany?

[Tobias Hofmann]

ladies, gentlemen,

I would like to profit from your experience and ask you for a 
recommendation - feel free to point me to any RTFMs, I am at loss... :)

I am, like many before me, in the process of selecting all I need for my 
first mythtv-machine, and have gone through a fair bit of research, 
methinks. The only missing thing is a recommendation for a tv-out card.

I want to use it on a Fujitsu-Siemens mainboard (D1567-C, i865G, P4 
2,8GHz), which has no tv-out, but controls CPU-fanspeed to (hopefully) 
be quiet. I plan to have the machine running on FC1 (and followups).

Followig the last four mounths of archived, I have came to the following:

- Geforce Chips seem to be well usable with mythtv - I see many 
favourable mentionings for MX440 and FX5200 cards. Correct? :)
- I would prefer to go with a fanless version, for noiselevel.
- I would like to have add. DVI-output - just in case... :)

Furthermore, I might do a bit of gaming (not done any for a _long_ time) 
on the machine once it is next to the TV in the living room - I know 
both chipsets are not state of the art for current games, but I'd like 
to do as best as i can within the requirements from above - priority is 
picture quality (TV-out) and no noise.

The recommendations on specific cards I have found on the list are 
mostly no good for me, as these cards are not for sale in Germany. What 
I have found googling is the following (going via 
www.geizhals.at/deutschland , to get an overview):

http://www.albatron.com.tw/english/it/vga/specification.asp?pro_id=61 
leads to the albatron fx5200ep, with the "warning" of only having "only" 
a memory bus of 64bit - would that hurt me remarkably?
Recently, the German magazine c't gave this (or another, the FX5200P 
(this is still unclear, the "P" has 128bit buswidth, but is about 
110euro...), a favourable review for "living room computer", that's how 
i stumbled over it...

Albatron MX440-8X 128MB DDR AGP GF4 TV-Out Retail can be found at 
http://www.computervisionen.de/catalog/product_info.php?cPath=34_62&products_id=500 
for roughly the same price - better or worse than the one above?

Apart from those, I find _lots_ of cards (who said choice was good? :) 
)from manufacturers I have never heard of or read weird things about in 
groups.google, so this is why I ask you about opinions on these cards 
and experiences with others (preferrabyl available in EU). My current 
price range would be up to about 80euro, all included.

Thanks a bunch in advance for your time,

greets, tobi... :)