"Rich Braun" <ri...@pioneer.ci.net> writes: > After last month's Intel CedarView driver debacle, and at Tom's suggestion to > dig through the MythTV forum for comments about graphic cards, I chose a new > system. The MythTV forums are relatively quiet on this topic, so I had to > make an educated guess. > > The product I chose is the Zotac Zbox ID80, which is based on the same > processor (Intel's discontiued Atom D2700 2.13GHz); $234 or so at any of the > major online vendors. It's got all the expected ports (including optical > S/PDIF which was missing from the Shuttle product) and includes an NVIDIA > GeForce GT 520M which is supported properly by the NVIDIA proprietary Linux > driver. I got the system up and running (on my usual OpenSUSE 12.2 distro, no > fiddling with Ubuntu/Fedora/everything else like I had to last time) in about > 30-40 minutes of effort; HD video playback uses about 6% CPU. > > The one tiny downside with this product is that the extra GPU chip costs extra > electric power: I'm measuring 29 watts idle, 33 watts during TV playback. If > only one could make the Shuttle product work (with the D2700's internal GPU), > then one could get power usage down to 13-14 watts. My future 10-watt video > front-end solution will just have to wait for the future to arrive.
Yeah, I bought a bunch of Zotac machines for frontends as well, installed F17 w/ the NVidia drivers and it hums along quite nicely! > -rich -derek -- Derek Atkins, SB '93 MIT EE, SM '95 MIT Media Laboratory Member, MIT Student Information Processing Board (SIPB) URL: http://web.mit.edu/warlord/ PP-ASEL-IA N1NWH warl...@mit.edu PGP key available _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list Discuss@blu.org http://lists.blu.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss