[mythtv-users] Standard PCI VDPAU-capable Video Cards vs. PCIExpress

[Nick Rout]

On Mon, Nov 29, 2010 at 11:54 AM, tortise <tortise at paradise.net.nz> wrote:
> On 29/11/2010 11:09 a.m., Brian Wood wrote:
>> With one exception (a Gigabyte K8NSC-939) they are all Asus boards. They
>> were set up with dual-core Opteron 165s. AMD made these Opterons with
>> 939 pins, for use with single CPU setups, and they are very nice CPUs.
>> As I said they overclock beautifully, and actually outperform the FX60s
>> of the same vintage.
>>
>> VIA has a reputation for flakiness, I stay away from them as much as I
>> can.
>
> Sadly this was not obvious to me at the time of purchase many many moons
> ago!
>
> Stating the obvious one can always dip your foot in the water buying just
> one and giving it a spin.  (To buy a fan or not to buy a fan...?)
>
> If you're using these all for frontend use I am not sure why you'd want to
> overclock them?  The only use for overclocking I really see would be for
> faster comflagging on a backend?  (Or other file manipulations)
>
> FWIW my pentium 3000's PCI FE's are in an ASUS P4C800-E Deluxe and Gigabyte
> GA 8IPE1000-G Rev 3.1
>
> The 9500's probably will suck significantly more power but give the best
> result.  The recent 8400's might be as good / better than the 9400's now?


Are there any PCI Feature Set C cards? I am guessing not as Set C
seems to be 210/220 and higher.

But if there were, you could presumably play divx/xvid material on them.