[mythtv-users] Does video card brand matter? VDPAU

Nick Rout nick.rout at gmail.com
Thu Oct 29 20:59:12 UTC 2009


On Fri, Oct 30, 2009 at 4:21 AM, Brian Wood <beww at beww.org> wrote:
> On Thursday 29 October 2009 09:13:07 aaron wrote:
>> On Thu, Oct 29, 2009 at 11:02, Bruce Nordstrand <brucen at ksl.com.au> wrote:
>> > The GT220's don't have any extra power connectors, the motherboard has
>> > one of the 4 pin Molex's  and I has that plugged in. The GT220 is one of
>> > these:
>> >
>> > http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/geforce-gt-220,2445-3.html
>>
>> OMG! Look at the size of that fan!
>
> I noticed that. I wonder if it's made by Rolls Royce or General Electric.
>
> I wonder how much of that fan is marketing. Some segments of the GPU market
> seem to like huge noisy devices. This card will not sell well with gamers,
> since it lacks the mandatory scantilly-clad woman on the packaging.

Funny you should say that, 2 dungeons and dragons books just arrived
from Amazon for my son's birthday, both with scantily clad (elf) women
on the cover.


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