El dom, 22-06-2008 a las 14:55 +0100, John Molohan escribió: > Hi, > I'm thinking of upgrading my system. Does anyone have any opinions on > either of these two boards: > > Gigabyte GA-EP35-DS4 > ASUS P5K-E/WIFI-AP I have a Gigabyte mobo with nForce 630i (integrated Geforce 7150 with VGA/DVI/HDMI and integrated sound card with Audio 7.1 with optical output), supports Intel Core Quad. It would be a nice mobo for a HTPC. > > The ASUS has built in wifi and some audio noise filter for high quality > audio. The gigabyte is meant to be a good overclocker. I'm probably > going to go with an Intel Q6600, any opinions on that as a good choice > for a video encoding processor? AFAIK multiple cpu core won't help decoding HD-Video. A powerfull Core2 Duo like Intel E8200/E8500 processors. BTW, I think a HTPC must not do noise, so you can't overclock..or have a water-cooling system. > > Also does anyone use maudio or other sound cards over the on board sound > and if so what would you recommend? I was using a Terratec DMX Fire, I don't know about news Sound Blaster XI-FI or Live 2020. Maybe standard ones like mine is enough. > > Thanks, > > John
Video Card should not be a problem. I don't know what pretends the Freevo team with new releases but if they try to put a 3D-system in ours Freevo menus, you should have the 3D acceleration enabled :P. nVidia should be enough, as I said before, GeForce 6600+ enough.(LE/LP or GS = LowProfile = Fanless). BTW, nobody knows if PureVideo is going to be supported under Linux = fast CPU =). ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Check out the new SourceForge.net Marketplace. It's the best place to buy or sell services for just about anything Open Source. http://sourceforge.net/services/buy/index.php _______________________________________________ Freevo-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freevo-users
