I have this board and have finally configured it to work properly as a frontend. I'm using DVI out to LCD HDTV and it works great. Using Nvidia's latest drivers, XvMC sort of "works". Playing HD recordings gives me a noticeable lag every couple of seconds. Without XvMC though it plays HD fine with 80% CPU utilization (Venice 3200+). I haven't played with different deinterlace algorithms but kernel seems to yield best picture on SD recordings (from cable over PVR500). I'll try again when next version of drivers come out.
<br><br>I had to compile and use Nvidia's nvnet network driver since forcedeth just stopped working one day (I must have messed up something because it worked fine for weeks).<br><br>After I got my SPDIF bracket from MSI (my board didn't come with one so I just called them and they sent me one for $10) I thought that was it, but after days of tinkering I haven't been able to configure the sound on board to do what I want. Kept getting distorted and screechy sound from my receiver. So I put in SBLive that I had from an old computer and that worked. I still can't get the SPDIF out checkbox on Myth to work. Configuring ALSA is one of the most humbling (or frustrating) experiences so far. I must have tried 10 different .asoundrcs I found on the web. Well, now the sound at least works, but I'm not really sure what I have. All I know is that it all goes through SPDIF coax out to the receiver. And the sound is comparable to my old DishNet setup.
<br><br>If anyone has on-board sound working on this mobo please post the .asoundrc!<br><br>I also had to compile lirc to enable my Streamzap remote, but that was painless. Hopefully Axel will include it in the next lirc release on atrpms.
<br><br>Overall this board is solid. CPU stays cool with the fan I have. I only have one other intake 80mm fan (very quiet ~21dB). When there are no other sounds in the room I can hear the barely noticeable hum, but since the heat is not an issue I have the whole case in a cabinet to further isolate it.
<br><br>If you are looking for a solid frontend board, this is it. I can help with setting up FC5 if anyone is interested.<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 4/21/06, <b class="gmail_sendername">Jurgen Kramer</b> <
<a href="mailto:gtm.kramer@inter.nl.net">gtm.kramer@inter.nl.net</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">On Tue, 2006-04-18 at 16:43 -0700, Conrad vr wrote:
<br>> I am looking at these two motherboards for a MythTV<br>> (front + back end) - plan onusing the AMD 3500+ CPU.<br>> If you know of another model that is better than these<br>> options, I want to know (must be uATX)!
<br>><br>> I was looking at the DFI RS482 motherboard but it<br>> appears the onboard ATI video card may be bad idea for<br>> MythTV and HD 1080i, and buy report the ATI Xpress 200<br>> chipset is lagging in features such as SATAII
<br>><br>><br>> MSI K8NGM2-FID (GeForce 6150 + nForce 430)<br>> MSI K8NGM2-NBP (GeForce 6150B + nForce 430)<br>><br>> Audio: RealTek ALC800<br>> LAN: 1Gb/s VITESSE VSC8201RX<br>> IEEE1394: VIA 6307
<br>><br>> Thanks in advance,<br>><br>I just replaced my uATX P4 Celeron based board with the K8NGM2-FID without any problems.<br>I upgraded the BIOS to version 3.20 (it came with a 'engineering release' ver 3.0)
<br>and everything worked out of the box (LAN, audio, video).<br>FC4 automatically made all the necessary modifications.<br><br>I just got this board this week but unfortunately it is still v1.0 so it<br>did not come with the SPDIF bracket. These are a bit hard to find.
<br><br>I have not tried if powernow is working properly. I am not sure if<br>MythTV really like it.<br><br>A quick test with XvMC showed that it does not work for me :( This is<br>with 8756.<br><br>But otherwise surely recommended.
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