[mythtv-users] processor?

Ashley Bostock abostock at gmail.com
Wed Oct 13 07:11:59 UTC 2004


I think you'll find he was talking about the pundit-s which has an ati
graphics card which does support hardware rendering, where as the
pundit-r as you say has a sis chipset which doesnt support dri so all
opengl related programs are rendered in software.


On Tue, 12 Oct 2004 20:26:27 +0100, Ciaran <ciaranj at gmail.com> wrote:
> You say your pundit-s runs ok with 3d games ? I was under the
> impression the Sis 315 family chipset couldn't do DRI which I was
> (again) lead to believe was fairly important for most 3D games under
> linux ? Am I wrong ?
> -ciaran
> 
> 
> 
> 
> On Tue, 12 Oct 2004 20:27:33 +0200, Gert van der Knokke <gertk at xs4all.nl> wrote:
> >
> >
> > Ryszard wrote:
> >
> > >I'm thinking of building a mythtv box, i've got in mind the pundit-r,
> > >hauppage 350 etc etc, and am wondering about processor speed, of
> > >course more is always better.
> > >
> > >i'm thinking of a celeron 2,4 for about 65-75 euro (in holland)
> > >
> > >is it enuff?
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > Depends on how much you expect, I run a Pundit(-s) with the VGA output
> > connected to a 17" monitor for daylight viewing and a Sharp LCD video
> > projector (older VIDEO only type) for big screen evening viewing, hooked
> > up to the Pundit-s TV-out and it works like a charm.
> >
> > Since you plan to put in a 350, recording won't take much CPU power. I'm
> > reading mixed stories on the tv-out of the 350 though as it does not
> > have any video or 3D accelleration, it does only MPEG2 decoding.
> > If you plan on playing games and playing DVD's the 350 is still
> > troublesome (read slow), the original VGA of the SiS chipset inside the
> > Pundit handles DVD playback and 3D games support without problems so you
> > might consider buying a 250, use the Pundits standard TV-out and save a
> > few bucks.
> >
> > Must note that my Pundit runs now frontend only although I have ran it
> > as a full MythTV system for some time with a simple BT878 card and it
> > worked OK too.
> > Speed with a Celeron 2.4 is more than adequate.
> >
> > Gert
> >
> > 
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