[mythtv-users] Hardware question

HP-mini blm-ubunet at slingshot.co.nz
Sat Aug 31 00:24:18 UTC 2013


On Sat, 2013-08-31 at 12:04 +1200, HP-mini wrote:
> On Fri, 2013-08-30 at 17:46 -0400, Stephen P. Villano wrote:
> > On 8/30/13 4:10 PM, HP-mini wrote:
> > > On Thu, 2013-08-29 at 22:59 -0400, Captain Hook wrote:
> 
> 
> > 
> > Well, I have a list of specs now for any future PC builds here.  ;)
> > But, I'm limited on the hardware of this machine to either AGP or PCI,
> > looks like PCI is going to win this race with the 210 card I'm looking at.
> > 
> > Rather ironic how I relied on this same model dual xeon system at work a
> > handful of years ago, now it's simply serving up media for the house.
> > Oh well, it was either this system or the spare Dell 2850 in the
> > basement.  ;)
> > _______________________________________________
> 
> There are no PCI nVidia 200 series video cards..
> PCI was obsoleted by AGP & that was a long long time ago..
> The last PCI video card were oddball versions of 8400GS.
> 
> There are no AGP cards that support VDPAU but with a fast CPU that does
> not matter (except for power consumption).
> 
> 
Wikipedia suggests that there is a PCI version of GT210.
That could have been made to support some OEM requirement & would be
more expensive.
I think the wikipedia info is wrong..
But good luck trying to find one.



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