[mythtv-users] Will a PcChips M789CLU C3 2000+ with WinPVR card suffice?

[Andrew Kuan]

My VIA-based Biostar mobo (
http://www.biostar-usa.com/mbdetails.asp?model=m7vig+pro+d) has served me
just fine over the past two years. I have an Athlon XP 2000+, a PVR250, a
PVR150MCE, and used to have a WinTV GO in it up until four days ago.

On 2/2/06, R. G. Newbury <newbury at mandamus.org> wrote:
>
> Jo Shields wrote:
> > Mike wrote:
> >
> >
> >> Francesco Peeters wrote:
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>> A friend pointed me to the PcChips M789CLU C3 2000+ MoBo, which has
> built
> >>> in everything, but runs on a VIA C3 at 900MHz.
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >> I don't know about other people but I've just come to the conclusion
> >> that you can't use anything on motherboards infected with VIA chipsets.
> >> I've had way too many problems in the past with things like PVR500's
> and
> >> it's PCB bridge and VIA's ill designed IRQ and DMA handling. I'm won't
> >> even attempt to use them anymore because its just not worth it to me to
> >> find another faulty chipset. Everything, and I mean everything else
> that
> >> I've tried in AMD, Intel, and SIS chipsets has worked just fine while
> >> almost all VIA chipsets have had problems for me.......
> >>
> >> -Mike
> >>
> >>
> >
> > I think that's something of a generalization.
> >
> > KT133 had some major IDE controller issues. KT133, 266 and 333 were a
> > little badly behaved in terms of PCI bus flooding (especially when a
> > Sound Blaster got involved). KT600 was uncompetitive compared to
> > nforce4, if a reasonable chipset. The AMD64 range (e.g. K8T800) are
> > pretty good, and considered a good choice for those wanting better Linux
> > support than nForce4 offers.
> >
> > Personally I've had more grief with SiS than Via, and my K8T800 board
> > works fine.
>
> A very bad generalization about a generation of chips which are
> basically no longer in use. I'm running a Epia SP13000 motherboard and
> all of its chips work fine. Need some tweaking for good performance but
> that's all. I've had more trouble with my HD3000 card than anything else.
>
> Geoff
>
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