Looks like I am running an NV18 as well. The picture quality is pretty good with SVIDEO, in my opinion. I guess its hard to say unless I had an NV17 to compare it to.
Dave On Wed, 23 Mar 2005 18:53:25 -0500, Craig Partin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wed, 23 Mar 2005 14:11:23 -0800, Big Wave Dave <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Probably a silly question... How can you find out if you have NV17 or > > NV18... etc. > > > > Dave > > lspci will tell you. I have 2 NV18 boards and they seem fine to me. > Maybe I am less sensitive to TV quality than others, but it looks > pretty good to me. > > > > > On Wed, 23 Mar 2005 17:06:36 -0500, Joseph A. Caputo > > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On Wednesday 23 March 2005 16:56, Will Dormann wrote: > > > > Shawn Asmussen wrote: > > > > > > > > > > Anybody thinking about getting one of these should keep in mind that > > > a > > > > > significant number of people (including myself) have had problems > > > with > > > > > the MX 440 and Nvidia's more recent driver versions. Unless you're > > > > > really trying hard to save the money, my recommendation would be to > > > > > shell out the extra $30 or so and get at least a 5200. > > > > > > > > What sort of problems? > > > > > > > > I'm running an MX4000 (Die-shrunk MX 440) with no real problems. > > > > > > Different revision of the GF4 MX 440 use(d) different TV encoder chips > > > for their TV-out. Depending on who you ask, some are great and some > > > suck. > > > > > > My original LeadTek GF4 MX 420 used an NV17 encoder chip, which was > > > probably about as good as I could have wanted without going to a > > > PVR-350 or DVI/component. > > > > > > My new(er) on-board (Chaintech 7NIF2) GF4 MX 440 uses an NV18 encoder, > > > which IMHO really sucks. > > > > > > Just my $.02. > > > > > > -JAC > > > _______________________________________________ > > > mythtv-users mailing list > > > [email protected] > > > http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > mythtv-users mailing list > > [email protected] > > http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users > > > _______________________________________________ mythtv-users mailing list [email protected] http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
