On Wednesday 17 August 2005 12:03, Niall Donegan wrote:
> I'm current looking for a small, quite PC for use as a video player/media
> centre. The main problem I'm encountering is that most of the embedded
> chipsets only output 800x600 to the composite TV out.
>> I want if possible a PC which would be too small to thrown an Nvidia or
> ATI PCI/AGP card into.
>> Has anyone any recommendations/horror stories about the various
> intregrated graphics chipsets available?
>> --
> Niall Donegan
> doneagain/at/skynet/dot/ie
> www.skynet.ie/~doneagain
i have a number of mythtv boxen
the best so far is a silverstone 10M case with an aopen i915GMm-HFS
motherboard. most of the time the fan on the 1.87GHz Pentium-M processor
doesn't even bother to spin. with a quiet ATX powersupply (i have an FSP
which i bought in Maplin - go figure) the machine is almost inaudible
the motherboard is expensive (£160) and hard to get
i think it is worth it
oh and by the way. it has VGA, DVI, S-Video and Component output.
you don't want to be using composite, if you can help it
regards
--
simon
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