[mythtv-users] Motherboard Recomendation

[Joseph A. Caputo]

On Thursday 31 March 2005 12:22, Donavan Stanley wrote:
> On Thu, 31 Mar 2005 08:48:55 -0700, Mark Gardner <markgard at gmail.com> 
wrote:
> > What i'm looking for is a motherboard that won't break the bank, but
> > just works.  I had one with a VIA chipset that had a bunch of DMA
> > errors :( But have had many good reports with nForce chipsets.
> > Preferably the onboard sound should work....
> > Onboard video a plus but not required...
> 
> I'll also chime in and reccomend the 7NIF2.  As others have mentioned
> the lack of SPDIF on board might be an issue, however in all other
> respects it's a great choice.  The TV-Out quality is fantastic and
> having it on the backplane is a nice plus.  I've also used one of
> these boards to drive a HDTV LCD for a bit without issue.

One caveat about the 7NIF2:  though most folks have had good 
experiences, I bought one in November, and they appear to have updated 
the graphics chipset.  The TV-out for me just plain sucks.  Much worse 
then my old AGP GF4-MX 420.  At first I chalked it up to the newer NV18 
TV encoder that it uses (previous revisions used the NV17), but I've 
other folks swear that they don't have a problem with their NV18 
TV-out.  I dunno, maybe I just got a bad board.  Everything else on the 
board seems to be great (though, I can't seem to get my mixer to 
control the volume -- don't know if it's the board or my 
configuration).

-JAC