[mythtv-users] Video Card Recommendation

Sarah Katherine Hayes sarah at sarahhayes.is-a-geek.net
Mon Aug 11 23:50:51 UTC 2008


Out of interest what distro are you using?  And have you made sure it's 
using the intel driver?  Finally, have you considered playing with the 
latest Intel releases?

Whilst a GeForce card (between 5xxx and 7xxx series) is probably the 
simplest way to go exploring other options (newer drivers, xorg.conf 
tweaking and such) with the onboard module might prove less irksome in 
the future. 

Keep in mind that currently there is little to no hand off between the 
GFX and CPU for things like H264 (which might affect you, not sure if 
your a MPEG2-HD person) so massive GPU's will tend to sit idle in 
MythTV.  So a cheap Nvidia card is better compared to a super expensive 
one in that respect.


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