On Thursday 31 March 2005 12:22, Donavan Stanley wrote: > On Thu, 31 Mar 2005 08:48:55 -0700, Mark Gardner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > What i'm looking for is a motherboard that won't break the bank, but > > just works. I had one with a VIA chipset that had a bunch of DMA > > errors :( But have had many good reports with nForce chipsets. > > Preferably the onboard sound should work.... > > Onboard video a plus but not required... > > I'll also chime in and reccomend the 7NIF2. As others have mentioned > the lack of SPDIF on board might be an issue, however in all other > respects it's a great choice. The TV-Out quality is fantastic and > having it on the backplane is a nice plus. I've also used one of > these boards to drive a HDTV LCD for a bit without issue.
One caveat about the 7NIF2: though most folks have had good experiences, I bought one in November, and they appear to have updated the graphics chipset. The TV-out for me just plain sucks. Much worse then my old AGP GF4-MX 420. At first I chalked it up to the newer NV18 TV encoder that it uses (previous revisions used the NV17), but I've other folks swear that they don't have a problem with their NV18 TV-out. I dunno, maybe I just got a bad board. Everything else on the board seems to be great (though, I can't seem to get my mixer to control the volume -- don't know if it's the board or my configuration). -JAC _______________________________________________ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users