[mythtv-users] Re: Help me find a winner...stinking Kt133

Duncan Sargeant dunc-mythtv at rcpt.to
Wed Aug 13 14:13:08 EDT 2003


Edmund Wong wrote on Wed August 13, at 11:02 +0800:
> You can try the ECS K7S5A Pro. Not exactly the best brand out there, but
> I've worked with many of them (not with MythTV, mind you. I just got into
> MythTV a few days ago) and sold a bunch of systems built around it (or
> previous revisions) with nary a hitch. I have a 1.2ghz Duron built for
> my mom around one and it's been solid. It's based around the SiS735 chipset.
> Unless if something has changed recently, it has two SDR and two DDR slots
> (no mixing RAM types, though) which lets you use 1GB of your current RAM.
> 1GB should be plenty, though, unless if you put your entire ringbuffer in
> RAM or something.

I'm using the K7S5A (not the Pro).  No problems here.  I'm running with
a 1.4Ghz Athlon and 256M DDR RAM.

> The onboard sound might not be the greatest, however. It's an AC97 codec
> based around the Realtek 9738 chip. Not sure how good the line-in quality
> is on it. Anybody want to chime in here?

The on-board sound is simplex, locked at 48kHz, distorts if you have
the volume at > 95%, and too quiet to drive speakers directly.  But
other than that, it plays sound great! :-)  No probs with the quality.

I bought a second sound card to handle line-in, and use the on-board
for line out.  In a stroke of bad luck, the 5.1 CMI-based soundcard I
bought uses the line-in control for recording volume, so I can't just
that sound card for mythtv :-(


,dunc


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