[mythtv-users] Hardware advice requested.

Jens.Peder.Terjesen at devoteam.com Jens.Peder.Terjesen at devoteam.com
Tue Jan 27 14:28:06 UTC 2009




-----Richard Shaw wrote: -----
>> Why not get a motherboard with integrated Nvidia graphics?
>> I have an Asus M3N78-EM which seems to work quite well with VDPAU.
>> http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813131354
>> This is mATX, but I think this motherboard is the same but ATX:
>> http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813131320
>
>My last two motherboards were ASUS, and although I still hold this in
>high regard, they both went out in 2 years. The first one was that
>bad
>capacitor issue (brown ant hills on 8 caps) and I suspect the second
>was for the same reason (one bulging cap). My current MB is a
>Gigabyte
>with all solid caps for that reason and it's an AMD 770 chipset and I
>like it a lot.
>
>Additonally I'm currently driving my LCD via VGA because it will not
>accept it's native resolution (1366x768) over HDMI, only 720p or
>1080i, so with that one I would still need a video card. I like the
>video card w/ all 3 types so if I get a new TV I can try all 3 and go
>with what gives me the best results. Also, I wanted a 9xxx series
>card
>for VC-1 acceleration. I'm not sure if any BlueRay disks use it in
>the
>US but I wanted to have my bases covered.
>
>Besides that I'm just not a fan of onboard video. No rational reason,
>I just don't like it :)
>
>Richard

The Asus M3N78-EM is all solid caps.
The Asus M3N78-EM has one VGA, one DVI and one HDMI output, and also
optical SPDIF/Toslink.
The onboard graphics seems to support VC-1 decoding according to this
utility: http://www.nvnews.net/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=124978

But I am not the one bying hardware (I have already done that). Just trying
to give advice/share resent experiences with new hardware.
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