On Tue, Jan 04, 2005 at 04:54:02PM -0500, David Fishburn wrote: > > They all seem to have TV Out, so I am not sure which ones are adequate for > MythTV. > Can I go with the cheapest $89 one (MSI FX5200 128meg DDR with TV & DVI > Output)? > Or are other ones recommended? >
This is hard to answer. On one hand, don't go with anything over the 5200, as they have fans on them, more heat, more noise. However, if you are going to drive an HDTV with DVI, I and others have had no end of problems with many levels of card, so no firm answer yet. In fact, you are probably fine with a geforce4, which can be had for about $30 in online shops. No fan. However, there are reports of problems with the 6629 driver on "older" cards. I don't know if gf4 counts as an older card or not. I use the 6111 driver in any event. I haven't tried it, but I see no reason why you couldn't use even a geforce2 if you wanted to for regular myth tv out. Even those have xvmc whenever that becomes stable in myth. (Though they don't have some fancy xvmc features found only in the fx models or geforce4 mx models.)
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