[mythtv-users] Are VIA chipsets still a no-no?

John Drescher drescherjm at gmail.com
Wed Feb 25 16:53:18 UTC 2009


On Tue, Feb 24, 2009 at 5:03 PM, Mark J. Small <msmall at eastlink.ca> wrote:
>
> HI everybody,
>
> I'm looking to rebuild my backend, and am doing a little research.  My current
> backend is a PentiumIII 1GHz box with 3 Hauppauge Freestyles and an AverA180.
> It works pretty but I'd like a little more juice for transcoding,
> commflagging and some SATA ports for more storage.
>
> Last time I went all Intel to avoid the dreaded DMA problems with old VIA
> chipsets. I'd heard that there were troubles with some NVIDIA chipsets too.
>
> So now I'm thinking about at some AMD chips, but I don't want to run in to
> compatibility issues.  So can anyone tell me if the newer chipsets work
> better?  How about the chipsets that are a few years old (nforce 3, K8T800)?
>
> My ideal motherboard/CPU combo would have:
> 2 Lan adapters
> 2 Serial ports (yeah right!)
> 4-5 PCI slots
> onboard video
> onboard sound
> IDE and SATA
> Use as little power as possible, since this is my server, and it runs 24/7
>

Get an ASUS M2N or M3N or even the newest ATI chipset boards. Stay
very far from VIA.

John


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