[mythtv-users] Newbie: Video Card for MythTV

[Jarod Wilson]

On Wednesday 20 October 2004 12:04, clemens at dwf.com wrote:
> I intend to put together a MythTV system later this month, and
> the one item that I am still unsure of is the Video card.
>
> I see several folks on this list recommending (or using) a
> Nvidia 5700 (Ultra?).

Not the brightest recommendation for a Myth box, if you ask me. A 5700 is 
serious overkill, so you'd just be wasting your money, unless you're playing 
lots of high-end games. And like Christopher said, a 5700 more likely than 
not has a fan, while many 5200s are fanless.

> I really dont know anything about video cards, and suspect Ill
> miss something important in reading the specs.  Is this a
> reasonable card?

If you're not doing HDTV, a GeForce 4 MX or MX-4000 is more than adequate. For 
HDTV, a 5200 does seem to be a bit better than an MX. I use a fanless FX 5200 
in my HDTV-connected box and a 4 MX in my other box.

> Any other preferences?

Not here. Some people really like the Radeon 9200 series cards. I wasn't wild 
about the Radeon 9000 I had. While it was fine for standard-def material, it 
was a POS for HDTV content, with a multitude of problems across all three 
possible drivers (radeon, fglrx, gatos). Might be fixed in recent driver 
versions though, that was back in XF86 4.2 days, and now I'm running Xorg 
6.8.1.

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Jarod C. Wilson, RHCE
jcw at wilsonet.com

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