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

[David Brodbeck]

On Mon, November 17, 2008 10:24 am, Brad DerManouelian wrote:
> On Nov 17, 2008, at 10:16 AM, David Brodbeck wrote:
>
>> On Sun, November 16, 2008 6:35 am, Nicolas Will wrote:
>>> Using the generic CPU works if you go the expensive way. This also
>>> means
>>> noise on the FE, as the CPU fan will start to spin up. Agreed, if you
>>> watch HD, you will probably have some sound covering the fans, this
>>> is
>>> what happens at my place.
>>>
>>> But going with a cheaper CPU, a cheap GPU that can assist HD decoding
>>> gives less noise and less money spent.
>>
>> But GPU fans aren't exactly silent, either.
>
> They are when you have a fanless card.

It seems like if you're doing something heavy-duty like video decoding,
though, it's gonna need a fan.  After all, you're just transferring load
from the CPU to the GPU.