<br><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">A) enable XcVM on my GeForce FX 5200 card, and hope there's just enough cycles to play HD @ 768 mode, or<br>
</blockquote><div>You may be able to get it to play. When i first started testing MythTV on a old box I got HD to play on a Athlon XP 1800+ (1.5Ghz) But the issue was when it would skip comm. or OSD would appear forget it. You had to wait 20 sec for the sytem to recover. <br>
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B) turn my current system into a backend, and put together a powerful but slim front end.<br>
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In the latter case . . . does it much matter which NVIDIA based card I get, if all I'd be using it for is HD playback? Some of the lower end cards don't have a fan, for example, which should reduce noise and power usage.<br>
<font color="#888888"></font></blockquote><div><br>Not much. the 5200 and 6200 are by far the most popular.<br><br>Mitchell<br></div></div>