[mythtv-users] Low powered nvidia GPU

[Fred Watt]

On 02/01/13 17:54, Fred Watt wrote:
> On 02/01/13 17:04, Gary Buhrmaster wrote:
>> On Wed, Jan 2, 2013 at 8:04 AM, Tim Draper <veehexx at gmail.com> wrote:
>> ....
>>> anything from nvidia on their current range (600-series) should be 
>>> perfect.
>>> which drives you use is dependant on the card you have bought; i 
>>> beleive
>>> phoronix did a test between the nouveau and offical nvidia drivers 
>>> and it
>>> was card dependant on which performed substantially better. the 
>>> lower end
>>> cards generally seemed to be better on the nouveau driver.
>> VDPAU is not supported on the nouveau driver.  You have to use
>> the nVidia binary blob driver for full VDPAU at this time (as I
>> recall, there is some work using shaders in mesa, but that is
>> not quite the same as using the dedicated hardware support).
>>
>> Gary
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> Thank you both for your thoughts, all progressive.  What I am looking 
> for is a low powered kepler card.  When the slave is recording without 
> anyone viewing the frontend it would lovely if the gpu idled as low as 
> was possible.  Likewise when myth frontend is in use, a low draw would 
> help with the efficiency of the slave.
>
> The computer in question is a few years old - intel clarksdale. Rather 
> than upgrade the cpu & motherboard, I was thinking of a gpu purchase.  
> Intel do have a few issues the the clarksdale driver - VAAPI does not 
> really work, plus if you power on without the tv on, there's a problem 
> starting X.  Going back to the slot in GPU would give me a better 
> picture quality, remove the problems and allow me to extend the life 
> of the slave hardware.
>
> Any good suggestions for actual cards?  Again I am happy with a GPU 
> fan I have a 10M hdmi cable back to the slave (in a cupboard).
Flippen'eck - this reads very badly... I meant to say I have my 
computers as node '0' in a cupboard.... gosh that's better.