Ati Radeon 7000 vs. nVidia FX 5500

[Lennart Sorensen]

On Wed, Oct 04, 2006 at 09:45:33PM -0400, Colin McGregor wrote:
> I am in the process of building my first dedicated
> MythTV box (as opposed to running MythTV on my "main"
> PC), using parts left over from other projects. One of
> the questions I have is what video card to use, I can
> use an Ati AGP Radeon 7000 (64 MB) or an XFX nVidia
> AGP FX 5500 (256 MB). Now, by all reasonable measures
> I know the nVidia will win out performance wise over
> the Ati card (and in most areas win by a wide margin).
>  
> My problem is that there is a fan on the nVidia card.
> The MythTV box already has a Duron 950 with a loud
> heat sink fan, and a power supply with a loud fan, Add
> in the noise of 2 x 40 GB hard drives and we are
> talking a loud box. In other words I don't want to add
> to the noise level if I can avoid it (and I don't have
> the budget to upgrade hardware for this project).
> Question is can I? As in, with a PVR 150 card for a
> tuner, can I get away with an Ati Radeon 7000, and
> still be able to record one show, while displaying
> another? Or is the only to go with the XFX nVidia FX
> 5500 and live with the extra noise?

My mythtv box has a fanless FX5200 card, which works great.  A duron 950
should not require a loud fan.  $20 should get you a new quiet fan.

I don't deal with ati anymore due to crappy drivers and support.  My
experiences with ATIs drivers are all bad.

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Len Sorensen
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