Steve Adeff wrote:
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
Where did you find it? Do you have a link? This is the only FX5200
PCIe link I could find:
http://computing.kelkoo.co.uk/b/a/ps_1498478/111601.html
I'd consider the newer 6xxx Nvidia PCIe cards, but then I read folks
complaining about Nvidia dropping Xvideo overlay support:
http://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2005/08/msg00205.html
Should I be concerned about this? This is all new stuff to me. Does
this have anything to do with XvMC?
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