<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Jan 25, 2012 at 3:33 PM, Dan Armbrust <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:daniel.armbrust.list@gmail.com">daniel.armbrust.list@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
<div class="im">> I'd recommend at least a P4 and a Nvidia card - Microcenter has a Geforce<br>
> 210 (fanless) made by Zotac for around $48 - plus there's a $15 mail in<br>
> rebate.<br>
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</div>Note, according to the details I've seen, the 210 doesn't haven enough<br>
horsepower to do full HD decoding with all the bells and whistles:<br>
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<a href="http://www.mythtv.org/wiki/VDPAU" target="_blank">http://www.mythtv.org/wiki/VDPAU</a><br>
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Ended up going with a 220 card myself... and couldn't find a fanless<br>
one. But, I can't hear the fan over the cpu fan anyway.<br><br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>True that - but I have yet to see/miss the bells and whistles I'm missing. I think (but do not know) the bells and/or whistles are a bag of nice graphical transitions and eye candy stuffs....</div>
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