what about this guy here? http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16813137061
it's intel 915 chipset and has component output for HD. I was able to get a cheap P-M 1.5GHz for $50 (one of those deals on techbargains.com). Anyone has experience with that chipset or maybe even board? -- Jonathan Lin email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ---------------------------------------- http://gallery.kegogi.com ---------------------------------------- Quoting Kirby Bakken <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Paul Bender wrote: > >> mike choy wrote: >> >> >>> I just spotted this Asus Motherboard >>> >>> Micro ATX >>> Dual Core support for fast rips and transcodes >>> Integrated DVI and VGA and Nividia graphics >>> Integrated SPDIF OUT >>> Integrated Firewire >>> Gigabit ethernet >>> >>> Heres te review >>> http://www.trustedreviews.com/article.aspx?art=2370 >>> >>> Anyone got any experience with this yet. >>> >>> >> >> I have this motherboard with a AMD Athlon64 3200 on it. I got it because >> a friend and I felt that it would make a great MythTV frontend. >> >> The short summary is that it has great promise, but it is not perfect yet. >> >> The Motherboard's DSDT is buggy, so you have to do some work to get it >> to boot with ACPI, but it can be done. The ALSA audio driver needs to be >> patched to get it to work without making horrible noises. The NVidia >> driver has a bug that prevents XvMC from working on this board so there >> is now hardware accelarated MPEG2 decoding yet. You can find out more >> about the problems at >> <http://www.nvnews.net/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=57791>. >> >> Having said all that, I have a version of MiniMyth <http://linpvr.org> >> running on it and I am using it as a diskless MythTV frontend right now. >> _______________________________________________ >> mythtv-users mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users >> >> >> >> > I don't have this particular MB, but I have two others with Nforce4 on > them... I'm currently running with the Biostar TForce6100-939. The > Nvidia video driver for this MB works fine with XvMc, but you have to go > 'back to the 7176 driver for GL Vsync to work. Nvidia is reportedly > aware of the bug and has it fixed in an internal (to them) driver that > should be released 'soon'. I've got Myth working well on this board > with a Fusion5 Gold card and an HD5000 card. I'm running Gentoo > 2.6.14-r5 kernel with the 'b2c2' dvb source from the 2.6.15 kernel > package (the 2.6.15 kernel has some issues with bad page handling). > There were initially problems (last November/December) with getting Sata > to work, but those are also handled in the 2.6.14-r5 kernel. My TV is a > Panasonic Plasma with VGA input, so I don't have any component/DVI > issues.... > > The 2nd Nforce4 MB was a Gigabyte Ga-K8N51GMF-9 Socket 939. It worked > fine except for sound... The 'default' ALSA sound setup was for 6 > channel sound, and it didn't have a 'Master' slider.... Like other > posters on this forum, the ALSA .asound setup was too complicated, so I > gave up on this board for a Myth frontend... I'll probably set this > board up as a backend in the near future.* > > * > _______________________________________________ > 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
