[mythtv-users] FYI - New HW video accellAPI from NVIDIA

[Nicolas Will]

On Fri, 2008-11-14 at 13:38 -0700, Travis Tabbal wrote:
> On Fri, Nov 14, 2008 at 1:10 PM, Nicolas Will <nico at youplala.net>
> wrote: 
>         On Fri, 2008-11-14 at 13:03 -0700, Travis Tabbal wrote:
>         > Considering the cost of the supported GPUs, it seems that
>         the 3Ghz
>         > dual core CPUs are the way to go for now.
>         
>         A 8400 card is about $30 at Newegg, using passive cooling,
>         without fan.
>         
>         http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814121235
>         
>         and this one is among the expensive models, too much RAM on
>         it.
> 
> 
> Hmmm... I missed that, thanks for the pointer. It will be interesting
> to see how it shakes out as NVidia debugs the driver. If one could use
> a $30 vid card and a slowish CPU (1Ghz Single Core?) it would make a
> pretty cheap frontend. 

I've just build an FE system on Newegg for less than $200 that would be
fully HD compliant with this API:

Western Digital Caviar WD800BB 80GB 7200 RPM IDE Ultra ATA100 Hard Drive
    $35.99

ASUS M3N78-VM AM2+/AM2 NVIDIA GeForce 8200 HDMI Micro ATX AMD
Motherboard (DVI+HDMI+Optical audio)
    $74.99

Kingston ValueRAM 1GB (2 x 512MB) 240-Pin DDR2 SDRAM DDR2 800 (PC2 6400)
Dual Channel Kit Desktop Memory Model KVR800D2N5K2/1G
    $20.99

AMD Sempron 64 3400+ Manila 1.8GHz Socket AM2 62W Single-Core Processor
Model SDA3400IAA3CW
    $19.99

Linkworld Black body/ Silver strip Steel 6280-01 Micro ATX Media
Center / HTPC Case with 300W Power Supply
    $38.99

Total: 	$190.95

Add a CPU Fan...

Ugly and probably noisy.

Now I'd like to see an Atom 330 board with PCIe 16x or an NVIDIA
chipset...

When I though that Intel would be forst with H.264 decoding on its 965
chipset, NVIDIA beats them and does more.

Nico