[mythtv-users] Recommended GeForce 5200 Cards

Brian Wood beww at beww.org
Fri May 19 11:53:21 UTC 2006


On May 19, 2006, at 5:45 AM, matt mead wrote:

> Carl Litt wrote:
>> My question to the list is: Which vendor makes the best 5200  
>> card?  By
>> best, I'm looking primarily for high quality SD TV-out, and secondly
>> ones with no GPU fan or a very quiet one.
>
> If you ever have intentions of viewing HDTV using XV scaling, I  
> would recommend
> *against*:
>
> ASUS V9520-X/TD GeForce FX 5200.
>
> http://usa.asus.com/products4.aspx? 
> l1=2&l2=7&l3=9&model=273&modelmenu=1
>
> Mad Dog Multimedia Conqueror FX 5200.
>
> http://www.mdmm.com/products/graphics/fx5200agp.asp
>
> Both of these have problems using the video overlay to scale at  
> least some
> 1920x1080 (1080i) content down to lower resolutions.
>
> The Mad Dog Multimedia card I have will scale properly using the  
> blitter, but
> it ends up with some temporal distortions on the output.


Are you saying that all 5200 cards have these problems? Or do these  
particular cards stray from nVidia's reference design in some way  
that causes them?


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