Bertrand M wrote:
From: Kirby Bakken <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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> I have a 'BIOSTAR TForce6100-939' MB and an HD5000 HD capture card. The
> on-board video does not currently work with any Nvidia driver
version. I'm told
> that one of the 'next' available drivers will work. However, I have
an Nvidia 5200
> PCIExpres x16 card, and this card is NOT fast enough to display HD
> video, so I doubt if the on-board video would either (once Nvidia
ships a driver
> that'll work).
so if you had to do it again, would you get the same components? I'm
wondering if I should just bend over and use Sage TV until the Linux
drivers catch up. (blasphemy, I'm sorry)
The Biostar MB worked well enough, I had to manually patch sata drivers,
I had to build the system with an ATA HD and add sata later... It took
me a couple of days off and on to get that working. I've been '100' off
with my Nvidia numbers... i.e. 5200 should have been 6200. The MB comes
with built-in Nvidia 6200 video. It doesn't work yet with existing
drivers. It should soon (so I'm told). I discovered that I had to move
up to a Nvidia 6600GT card in order to get a video card that was either
a) fast enough, or b) worked well enough with XvMc... I'm not sure,
because by now I also have a Gigabyte MB that's roughly equilvalent to
the Biostar, but the audio chip is an ALC880, and I'm having trouble
getting that to work with Myth.... The device driver that I got to work
(by downloading from the Reatek site) results in a mixer with no
'Master' slider, so therefore, Myth 'barfs' because it can't set the
Master slider. I'm told there are ways around that if you 'craft' the
.asoundrc file, but I haven't gotten to that yet (anybody have any
examples of doing that? :-) )
> I'm going to have a Nvidia 5600GT card to try in a few hours...
hopefully that'll
> work.
Any luck?
Yes, see above. With this card, I finally got to non-stuttering
video/audio on 'most' stations. WITH XvMc and the Gigabyte (Nvidia)
6600GT card, I was able to get about 55% CPU utilization on most
channels, but on PBS channels (I think those are 'full' 1080i), I was
runnig about 96% CPU, and it still stuttered.. This is with an
overclocked Athlon64 3500+.
> I was able to get the sound, network, and sata working on that MB...
how much trouble was it?
I'm debating on going 'back' to the Biostar MB, as at least I had sound
working with that.... I'm thinking that the ALC880 sound chip is
probably better, but If I can't get it working, who cares.....
From: "R. Geoffrey Newbury" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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> If you are NOT trying to build a gaming machine, nor necessarily an HDTV
> capable machine,
I completely forgot to mention, but I /do/ want HDTV. I assumed HD-3000.
> then the VIA Epia series are fast enough and run cool.
I was told to avoid them because "TV cards tyically use large amounts
of DMA traffic, and VIA chipsets are notoriously poor in this area."
> If you want more 'grunt' then your choice of mini-ATX motherboard
should focus
> on a newer one using the Centrino Mobile chipset. The Pentium-M
#758 for
Why no AMD?
> With a mini-ATX motherboard, you can then choose an AGP video
card... but
> again, choices are limited by the quiet/heat requirements.
Aren't there any mobos with on-board video that is good enough for
these purposes?
> The very latest nVidia boards are apparently quite capably handled
by existing
> drivers, but the very latest are all very hot, and noisy due to having
> their own fans. If you want quiet you must step back a few levels..
I think I've realized that performance is more important than noise,
though I don't want a loud beast.
In order of importance,
CASE > PERFORMANCE > NOISE > MONEY
with not too many sacrifices to any hopefully?
> In any event, with the Silverstone case, you should go for the
PVR500 to get 2
> tuners on one card
I've been hearing that a lot, guess I better :)
> No-one here can decide for you, but we can help with a decision tree
to help
> you decide.
thank you for all the help. I guess I was hoping there was one
mobo/cpu combo that was head and shoulders the winner for HDTV mATX
PVR applications.
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