[mythtv-users] Graphics card recommendation

[Jesse Guardiani]

On Sunday 20 November 2005 5:43 am, Jules Bean wrote:
> Mike Robinson wrote:
> > 
> >> I'm personally drooling over the Abit IC7-G. Firewire, USB 2.0, 4 PCI 
> >> slots,
> >> an AGP slot, Gigabit, and optical 6.1 audio in-out, and quad pumped dual
> >> channel DDR all built-in. I've seen 'em for about $120.
> > 
> > That might be the one for me.  Please get me a drool bucket.
> > 
> 
> I avoided the Abit AV8 because a bit of research revealed it uses 
> proprietary power management - uGuru instead of plain old ACPI - and 
> they haven't released specs. Somebody has just recently got some limited 
> linux support for it by reverse engineering, but I decided to try to 
> find a board where the manufacturers were being a little more friendly.


Not to mention the fact that it's a VIA chipset. I've avoided VIA like
the plague since my first (and last) VIA motherboard in 1999. It was an
AOpen AX63Pro, and it was nothing but trouble until the day it died a
horrible, premature death due to power regulator failure (taking the
CPU with it) in 2001.


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Jesse Guardiani
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