I've been running a Shuttle SK43G with 2.2Ghz AMD, silentPC fan, silent 250W psu and replaced all the mobo fans with heatsinks for 3 years.
time to replace. The fan is still quiet, but now the case vibrates a little, and the whole thing runs about 61 degrees - which isn't ideal.
I'd like to go fanless and cool. What I like about the shuttle is it's size. The 1x PCI is fine, as is the VIA unichrome VGA & s-video out.
Any ideas on a small compact fanless (DEAD quiet) case & motherboard??
----- Original Message ----- From: jori.hamalainen@teliasonera.com To: vdr@linuxtv.org Sent: Thursday, August 23, 2007 9:21 PM Subject: Re: [vdr] Mid range CPU choice
HDMI VGA RGB S-Video is the order. HDMI is digital und should those provide best quality (equals to DVI.
My list is a bit other way round, as beauty of the picture is in viewers eye.
S-Video Composite RGB Component VGA HDMI/DVI
Don't get me wrong, as already years ago I have played with HDTV stuff, and naturally with DVI-based to my projector. Problem is that DVB-C / DVB-T is so bad quality signal (in Finland at least), lots of blocking artefacts so it looks very lousy. By using DVI (and probable upscaling to 720p/1080i) picture gets to sh*t. So I abandoned the idea 2 years ago. (VDR-Xine with DVB-C & DVB-S when Euro1080i/HD1 was open for all).
So best non-HD output would be S-Video (and composite) which hides the blocking and picture errors, and gives stutter free output of the program. RGB starts to show more MPEG features. With Component/VGA/HDMI you probably need to use computer-based output, and I haven't seen stutter free output.
With this I mean X server config, you cannot get exactly 50Hz output, but you can get 50.04Hz output. That might lead to micro stutter on picture.
But the list I quoted is the best order in terms of video connection quality, but not the best picture quality for viewer.. :-O
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