[mythtv-users] Recommendations for VDPAU board suitable for 1080i (Advanced 2x)

Another Sillyname anothersname at googlemail.com
Thu Jan 14 03:52:43 UTC 2010


2010/1/14 Johnny <jarpublic at gmail.com>:
>> I posted on the VDPAU wiki page, an image of a table provided by Zotac of
>> specifications for the video cards it makes using NVidia chipsets, basically
>> from the 9500GT up. There is effectively a 'dip' in the capabilities. At the
>> moment a 9800GT series board would be the sweet spot of capabilities versus
>> price as it beats the GT210, GT220 and possibly even the GT240 on memory
>> bandwidth and shaders, the bits which the interlacing methods interact with.
>
> I don't think that should be on the wiki. It isn't helpful and seems
> out of place. A simple link to the relevant Wikipedia articles would
> suffice. This isn't 3D gaming where more is always better. The other
> charts give the information that is needed for determining which chip
> to get. You only need to know what deinterlacer it can handle. The
> 9800 is not the sweet spot. That is a heavy duty 3D gaming card, that
> will suck down a lot of power and have a big fan. It will pull down
> 150-250 watts all by itself. That is more power than most entire
> mythtv systems pull down.For MythTV you want the minimum that will get
> the job done. That is why 9500/9600 or GT220 are the ideal. They do
> everything you need. Anything more is wasting power, money, etc.
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9600 GT Low Power only 59w


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