[mythtv-users] Hardware advice requested.

Richard Shaw hobbes1069 at gmail.com
Tue Jan 27 14:58:55 UTC 2009


On Tue, Jan 27, 2009 at 8:28 AM,  <Jens.Peder.Terjesen at devoteam.com> wrote:
> -----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.

That's interesting. The original post about VDPAU said a 9xxx card was
required for VC-1...

http://www.nvnews.net/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=123091

Has this changed?

Richard


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