On Friday 18 November 2005 19:42, Mike Robinson wrote: > > Interesting in my mythbox I'm using an AGP fx5200 without any of that. > > The reason I like the Nvidia based cards is that the TV-Out is active at > > boot so you can do bios updates as necessary not sure if ATI supports > > that but it was a selling feature when I bought the card. As far as > > PCI/PCI-E go most PCI-E boards come with 3 or 4 pci slots so if you buy > > the PCI-E card and find it unworkable you can switch it for a PCI > > version. The new box I'm planning will be using PCI-E > > I think that's my plan...a mobo with at least three PCI slots and a PCIe > slot. What I haven't figured out is which PCIe graphics card to get. > FX5200 isn't readily available with a PCIe interface. The next > generation card (the 6200) aparently has some overlay limitation in > Linux. My head is ready to explode with from all of the different > reviews I've read on various cards. I plan on getting a beefy CPU, but > I'd still rather not tax it if it can be offloaded to the graphics card. > Has anyone had experience building a BE/FE HDTV system that performs > without a glitch?...including recordings, live TV, OSD, etc. If so, I'd > love to know the setup.
I have an Albatross FX5200 PCIE card on my file server, I connected it to my HD tv and it worked fine, I assume TV out works as well. 90% of NVIDIA based cards use the NVIDIA reference design, very few vary from it (but when they do, they usually cost $$$ and are really sweet). so you shouldn't have an issue. Steve _______________________________________________ mythtv-users mailing list [email protected] http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
