<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">2009/9/25 Tim McKenzie <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:tjm1983@gmail.com">tjm1983@gmail.com</a>></span><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
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</div>I'm interested in this discussion. I'm currently thinking about<br>
building a MythTV box (to double as a front- and back-end, and<br>
perhaps do other work, too). I was looking at an ECS A780GM-A<br>
motherboard, which has a built-in ATI Radeon HD3200. I'm<br>
particularly interested in the favourable reports with open source<br>
drivers, since I'd like to stick with open source.<br>
<br></blockquote><div>My myth box is an A64 X2 (some socket 939 thing), and initially I was using a passivly cooled Radeon 2600XT, using the closed source ATI drivers. <br><br>This was impossible to get a really good picture on, the main issue i never solved was the tearing that seems to plague ATI users with myth.<br>
<br>Moved to a second hand 7 series Geforce, and it's much better.<br><br>I never tried the open source drivers as they weren't mature enough at the time.<br> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
And will it matter anyway if I put an Athlon II X2 240 (2.8 GHz<br>
dual-core AM3) in it?<br>
<br></blockquote><div>It wasn't a question of processing power for me, the image wouldn't vsync correctly, so you'd get a tear at a fixed point in the image (fixed for the duration of the viewing, but in a different place each time.) Most of the time it wasn't that noticable, but it was annoying.<br>
<br>I have a standard definition CRT TV, using svideo, you may have different results with others.<br><br>I will say one thing though, I think the 708G is a good chipset, it's not a power hog (so is passivly cooled) so even if you do have to add an extra GFX card you'd not be buying a bad chipset. (The board in my server is a 780G and will hapilly have all 6 SATA channels loaded without issue for example.)<br>
<br>I'm not sure that's a lot of help, but it may be some use. :) <br><br>Cheers,<br><br>Ian<br></div></div>